Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: important
When going to purge a package aptitude will often segfault. Often this is when package is at rc status as per below output from dpkg -l: rc linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 2.6.17-9 Linux 2.6.17 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ And here is the crash: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp# gdb aptitude GNU gdb 6.6-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) set args -PV purge linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/aptitude -PV purge linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1212623168 (LWP 21976)] (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done [New Thread -1226056816 (LWP 21981)] The following packages will be REMOVED: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1212623168 (LWP 21976)] 0xb7c03513 in strlen () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7c03513 in strlen () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0x081401d6 in ?? () #2 0x08141425 in ?? () #3 0x08141b54 in ?? () #4 0x08139111 in ?? () #5 0x08055adf in ?? () #6 0xb7ba9050 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0x08052331 in ?? () -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc3gerrit (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070812-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.6.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
