Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


aptitude segmentation faults on start up, as root or normal user, on my armel 
machine.
apt-get and other apt utilities seem fine.
Weirdly when I use strace I no longer get the segmentation fault and aptitude 
will run.

da...@thaney:~$ strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_user.out aptitude update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission 
denied)
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
da...@thaney:~$ aptitude update
Segmentation fault
da...@thaney:~$ su -
Password:
thaney:~# apt-get -q -q update ; apt-get -q -q upgrade
thaney:~# aptitude -q -q update ;
Segmentation fault
thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out aptitude -q -q update ;
Reading package lists...
thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out  aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Reading task descriptions...
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Reading task descriptions...
thaney:~# aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade
Segmentation fault

Not sure what else I can provide to be useful....
Good (bug) hunting!
David

-- Package-specific info:
        libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 
(0x40026000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x400d8000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x4011a000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x40126000)
        libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x401de000)
        libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x4024f000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40391000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x403ad000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x403cb000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x404a6000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40553000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40567000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x4068f000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4069a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x40000000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-orion5x
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget3            0.5.12-4          high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0                0.5.22            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5           5.7+20081213-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a     2.0.18-2          type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15            1.0.7-4           Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  tasksel                       2.78       Tool for selecting tasks for insta

-- no debconf information



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