This problem appeared on my Debian Unstable AMD64 today. file: apt-pkg/deb/debsrcrecords.cc function: const char **debSrcRecordParser::Binaries()
When: if (Bins.length() > sizeof(Buffer)) is true, then it blows up.... Judging from the comment there seems to be some performance hack there for when there is a long string.... Buf contains this long string when it blows up: spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-3-686-bigmem, unionfs-modules-2.6-r4k-kn04, spca5xx-modules-2.6-amd64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-atari, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-itanium, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-sparc32, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-vserver-s390x, unionfs-modules-2.6-iop32x, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-686, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-powerpc-miboot, unionfs-modules-2.6-r3k-kn02, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-r5k-cobalt, squashfs-modules-2.6-parisc, unionfs-modules-2.6-itanium, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-686-bigmem, squashfs-modules-2.6-s390, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-alpha-legacy, spca5xx-modules-2.6-686, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-rpc, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-vserver-k7, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx, unionfs-modules-2.6-s3c2410, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-rpc, squashfs-modules-2.6-r4k-ip22, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-vserver-alpha, spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-3-vserver-686, spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-3-xen-686, 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redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-sparc64-smp, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-rpc, unionfs-modules-2.6-amd64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-vserver-k7, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-sparc64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-s3c2410, squashfs-modules-2.6.18-3-iop32x, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-r5k-ip32, squashfs-modules-2.6.18-3-powerpc64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-686, spca5xx-modules-2.6-powerpc, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-parisc-smp, unionfs-modules-2.6-ixp4xx, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-parisc64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-3-footbridge, unionfs-modules-2.6-qemu, spca5xx-modules-2.6-powerpc-smp, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-ixp4xx, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-amiga, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-k7, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-mckinley, squashfs-modules-2.6.18-3-parisc64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-r5k-cobalt, squashfs-modules-2.6-powerpc, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-footbridge, mol-modules-2.6-vserver-powerpc, squashfs-modules-2.6.18-3-amiga, squashfs-modules-2.6-sparc64-smp, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-vserver-amd64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-xen-k7, squashfs-modules-2.6-xen-vserver-amd64, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-qemu, redhat-cluster-modules-2.6-parisc64, unionfs-modules-2.6.18-3-amd64, squashfs-modules-2.6.18-3-686, spca5xx-modules-2.6.18-3-xen-amd64, spca5xx-modules-2.6-xen-vserver-686 Gotta run.... HTH. -- Regards, Andreas Henriksson