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update-notifier package

apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg()

Bug #622616 reported by Braiam Peguero on 2010-08-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #467875: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-notifier (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-notifier

Maybe this crash is because I have Synaptic open when the automatic update try to run. I see a red icon on the notification area indicating that Update Notifier has a problem trying to find updates.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-notifier-common 0.99.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: ee8ebec101005ce57a9c3355b36ca8a7
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Mon Aug 23 05:18:29 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt_check.py
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
LANG=es_DO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x17b470 <_ZN8pkgCache7FindPkgERKSs+96>: mov (%esi),%edx
PC (0x0017b470) ok
source "(%esi)" (0xd413def0) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
pkgCache::FindPkg(std::string const&) ()
pkgCacheGenerator::NewPackage(pkgCache::PkgIterator&, std::string const&) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList(pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser&, pkgCache::VerIterator*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
debStatusIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress&) const
?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg()
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Braiam Peguero (braiampe) wrote on 2010-08-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (976 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (766 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (546 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-10-10:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #467875, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.