[Aptitude-devel] Bug#782872: Bug#782872: aptitude: SIGSEGV got when create "New Categorical Browser"

[David Kalnischkies]

Hi,

(not the maintainer, I don't even have aptitude installled and have no
idea what 'New Categorical Browser' means at the moment but still)

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 01:06:39PM +0800, Zhang Jingqiang wrote:
> When I try to get a "New Categorical Browser" from the curses menu,
> SYSSEGV happened.
> I install aptitude-dbg and run "gdb aptitude", got the following output
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> __strcmp_sse2_unaligned () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-sse2-unaligned.S:30
> 30      ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-sse2-unaligned.S: No such file or directory.
> 
> It's always reproducible on my laptop.

Can you please run 'bt' (backtrace) in gdb as a strcmp call could (and
is) everywhere in aptitude or deeper down in the stack.

Does this happen 'for a while' now or did you find out about it only
recently? Maybe only since an upgrade of x, y and z?


That could be highly state dependent (especially if it isn't aptitude
but libapt failing here) so I wanted to chirp in before this state is
"lost" to an update/upgrade or something.

Maybe make a backup of /var/lib/apt/ and /var/lib/dpkg/status somewhere,
in case we find out the relevant state is dependent on those.


> No such bug found on my cubietruck.

btw: Is cubietruck 'armhf' or 'armel'?


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
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