[Aptitude-devel] Bug#673756: aptitude: Reproducible segmentation fault trying a routine upgrade os a sid system

Mon May 21 09:04:33 UTC 2012

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.7-1
Severity: important

Hi,

here is the problem:

# gdb aptitude
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/aptitude...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/97/69b4c55215260a64d888e5305fe18d45a0df27.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) run upgrade
Starting program: /usr/bin/aptitude upgrade
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb5519b70 (LWP 8786)]       
Resolving dependencies...
open: 748; closed: 484; defer: 138; conflict: 2                                                                  oThe following NEW packages will be installed:
  auto-multiple-choice-common{a} gcr{a} gir1.2-gck-1{a} gir1.2-gcr-3{a} imvirt-helper{a} libbobcat3{a} 
  libctemplate2{a} libgzstream-tulip-3.7.0{a} libindicator7{a} libogdf-tulip-3.7.0{a} 
  libroar-plugins-universal{a} libsratom-0-0{a} libtulip-3.7{a} libtulip-ogdf-3.7{a} libtulip-ogl-3.7{a} 
  libtulip-qt4-3.7{a} libxs2{a} libzrtpcpp2{a} nagios-plugins-common{a} pear-symfony-project-channel{a} 
  php-codecoverage{a} php-symfony-yaml{a} php-timer{a} php5-xdebug{a} phpunit-mock-object{a} roarclients{a} 
  ruby-activemodel-3.2{a} ruby-activesupport-3.2{a} ruby-fssm{a} ruby-krb5-auth{a} 
  ruby-mixlib-authentication{a} ruby-opengl{a} ruby-openid{a} ruby-rb-inotify{a} ruby-usb{a} 
  ruby-validatable{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  auto-multiple-choice bisonc++ flexc++ gnome-keyring imvirt libbobcat-dev libctemplate-dev libfssm-ruby 
  libfssm-ruby1.8 libfssm-ruby1.9.1 libgck-1-0 libgck-1-dev libgcr-3-1 libgcr-3-dev libimvirt-perl 
  libindicator-tools libkrb5-ruby1.9.1 liblilv-0-0 libmixlib-authentication-ruby1.8 libopengl-ruby 
  libopengl-ruby1.9.1 libopenid-ruby librb-inotify-ruby1.8 librb-inotify-ruby1.9.1 libroar-compat2 libroar2 
  libtulip-dev libusb-ruby1.9.1 libvalidatable-ruby1.9.1 libxs-dev libzrtpcpp-dev nagios-plugins 
  nagios-plugins-basic phpunit prosody psi-plus psi-plus-common psi-plus-plugins psi-plus-webkit 
  python-requests roaraudio ruby-activerecord seahorse sflphone-daemon sflphone-data sflphone-gnome tulip 
  valgrind 
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  gettext-el rdtool-elisp tdiary-mode verbiste-el 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  php-invoker phpunit-story psi-plus-sounds python-oauthlib tulip-help valgrind-dbg 
48 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/50.7 MB of archives. After unpacking 17.0 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7f0a7b3 in debVersioningSystem::CmpFragment(char const*, char const*, char const*, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7f0a7b3 in debVersioningSystem::CmpFragment(char const*, char const*, char const*, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#1  0xb7f0ab00 in debVersioningSystem::DoCmpVersion(char const*, char const*, char const*, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#2  0xb7f0a6d9 in debVersioningSystem::CheckDep(char const*, int, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#3  0xb7e76b89 in pkgCache::DepIterator::AllTargets() const () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#4  0xb7e8fa00 in pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack(pkgCache::PkgIterator, bool, int) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#5  0xb7e8f69e in pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack(pkgCache::PkgIterator, bool, int) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12

The rest of the stack is a seemingly endless repetition of the
pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack method call.

Unfortunately libapt-pkg has no -dbg package.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.7 compiled at May  5 2012 03:07:17
Compiler: g++ 4.6.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb778b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb71b4000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7182000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7161000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb715c000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb705b000)
	libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0xb700b000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e22000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e08000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d58000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6d41000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d28000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c3c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c15000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6bf8000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6a9b000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a97000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a93000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a82000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a7c000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a73000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb778c000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-rt-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.3
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3
ii  libc6                     2.13-32
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.2
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.6.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-8
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-7
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.0-8
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-7
ii  libxapian22               1.2.10-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-5

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.7-1
ii  aptitude-doc-fi [aptitude-doc]  0.6.7-1
ii  aptitude-doc-fr [aptitude-doc]  0.6.7-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.9+b1
ii  tasksel  3.09

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