Thanks for your report.
It is apt that crashes when the package index is corrupted. I'm closing this
report because it is already reported in apt.
Thanks.
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Synaptic Package Manager closes with segmentation fault
https://bug
This is still present on Karmic (with all updates). And it is not just
Synaptic that crashes. But even apt-get crashes. So it is not possible
to recover form this unless the cache is deleted (as specified in
Hiker's comment).
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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To solve this, execute,
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
apt related cache and index are somewhat problematic, I personally at
least experienced twice. Cause is unknown (or it should be fixed now),
the solution is to delete cache and index (and execute #sudo update-apt-
xapian-index).
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** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29155423/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29155424/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29155425/ProcStatus.txt
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