Hi Manuel, On 05.02.2016 20:47, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2016-01-12 23:39 Axel Beckert: >> Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >>> On 05.01.2016 18:46, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >>> > since upgrading to apt > 1.1 aptitude sometimes crashes, when reading >>> > changelogs. >>> > So far it happened four times in the last month. >>> >>> I have found a quite reliable way to reproduce the crash: >>> * open the aptitude ncurses interface >>> * select one package (e.g. aptitude) >>> * press 'C' multiple times (at least twice) in a row, fast >>> * watch the segfault... >> >> Indeed. With those instructions I can reproduce the issue with >> aptitude 0.7.5-3 on amd64. >> >> Thanks for bug report and the followup with more details. > > This turned out to be incredibly complicated to debug, and I couldn't > find out in the end the exact cause of the crash after several > afternoons and evenings looking into it. Threading make this kind of > debugging very complicate.
I can understand your pain. > I believe that the crashes don't happen anymore with this fix, though. Thanks for fixing it! Best regards, Andreas