[Aptitude-devel] Bug#691846: "aptitude update" segfaults

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 30 October 2012 18:17, Stanislav Maslovski
<stanislav.maslovski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, "aptitude update" reproducibly segfaults on my 64-bit
> system with the following gdb backtrace:
> […]
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff7b4fe80 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides(pkgCache::VerIterator&, std::string const&, std::string const&, std::string const&) ()
>    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
> #1  0x00007ffff7b885f1 in debListParser::NewProvidesAllArch(pkgCache::VerIterator&, std::string const&, std::string const&) ()   from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
> #2  0x00007ffff7b8a503 in debListParser::ParseProvides(pkgCache::VerIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12

> Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
> ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.1-2
> ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.5

Hello

A very similar crash [1] was fixed in libapt-pkg4.12/0.9.7.6.  Does
that version fix this for you?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/690498