[Aptitude-devel] Bug#794862: Bug#794862: crashes randomly in libcwidget.so.3

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Yuri,

Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On 07/08/15 13:06, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Control: 
> > 
> > Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> >> After the update to 0.7-1, aptitude is very unstable.
> >> I can get segmentations faults just by moving the cursor around.
> > 
> > That's either a duplicate of #794705 or #794830. Please choose. ;-)
> 
> Though choice ;)
> 
> >> In most of the crashes, the backtrace seems to be either in cwidget or in sigc,
> >> which is probably a signal that one of the two needs a rebuild due to the new
> >> ABI (I've just seen #794705 but nothing in libsigc++ yet).
> > 
> > Yep, we're already discussing if #794705 should be reassigned to
> > ligsigc++-2.0 (libsigc++ is no more in Debian for quite a while).
> 
> The libsigc++2.0 transition also looks quite funny ;)

The part which is relevant for aptitude is now done.

> Considering I've had to --force-depends a few packages to move my system
> through in the last two days or so..
> 
> [in that sense, I'd love aptitude to allow to proceed with --force-all
> if given 'g' enough times - it's a rare need, but heck, I do what I
> want(tm)].

Is your problem still present after both cwidget and aptitude being
rebuilt and depend on libsigc++-2.0-0v5?

		Regards, Axel
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