[Aptitude-devel] Bug#669322: aptitude: "Method http has died unexpectedly" with zh_CN.utf8 locale

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 29 April 2012 03:51, Wolodja Wentland <debian at babilen5.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you Daniel for looking into this. I'd like to start by providing a few
> more details as this might help to triage this bug. The bug is related to
> parsing/handling of aptitude-defaults and manifests itself when
> aptitude-defaults.{zh*,..} are used.
>
> I verified this by replacing /usr/local/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults.zh_TW
> with /usr/local/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults which fixed the error.
>

> I can still reproduce it even with the newest version in git and using "-O0 -g"
> and I am not sure why you don't see the error. Are you running aptitude
> directly from the repository with something like ./src/aptitude? I ask because
> that doesn't result in the error because aptitude-defaults.zh_TW is not loaded.
>

That was why I could not reproduce it. :-)

>> Otherwise I will try to reproduce it again on a fresh system, and see
>> if my changes fix it.
>
> I tried to bisect the issue and initially thought that it might have been
> de95eb2 or bd3f0ed, but I could reproduce it with e93a341 (i.e. 0.6.5) as
> well. I had to cherry-pick 9803921 and fd0f5f3 to get e93a341 to compile
> though, but don't expect them to have an effect. Unfortunately I failed to
> compile even older versions.
>

Ubuntu saw this bug when changing to updated apt (>= 0.8.16~exp5) and
it appeared here when compiled with 0.9.0 so I believe this is caused
by a change in apt -- possibly to do with passing the multibyte
characters from aptitude-defaults.?? to the acquire methods (libapt
passes all configuration data to each method I believe).

Thanks to both of you for narrowing this down, that certainly helps to
get this rather serious issue resolved.