[Aptitude-devel] Bug#801430: aptitude: segfault maybe casued by package dependency loop aptitudeDepCache::internal_mark_delete loop here

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: severity -1 serious


2015-10-10 18:16 张敬强:
>>>The bug is caused by libxmlrpc-lite-perl and libsoap-lite-perl
>>>libsoap-lite-perl depends libxmlrpc-lite-perl, while the latter one
>>>recommends the previous one. 
>>>The step to reproduce:
>>>1.Install libsoap-lite-perl, make sure libxmlrpc-lite-perl is marked as
>>>auto-installed 2.Select package libsoap-lite-perl, Press 'M'
>>>3.Press 'g'
>>>4.Select libxmlrpc-lite-perl or libsoap-lite-perl, press '_'
>>>5.crash
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce it as it is, maybe because I have devscripts
>> installed, which recommends libsoap-lite-perl.
>Today I uninstalled maint-guide and devscripts on my work computer and found 
>this.
>> 
>> But interested to know, do you have ::Purge-Unused enabled in (user or
>> root's) ~/.aptitude/config ?  Can you post that file?
>On my old laptop, aptitude crash when "_" or "-" pkg postgresql-9.4 with the 
>same backtrace.
>/root/.aptitude/config content on this machine:
>
>aptitude "";
>aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "";
>aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern "";
>aptitude::UI "";
>aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "true";
>aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%S %p %Z %t %v %V";
>aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format "%d %t";
>aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "false";
>aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update "true";
>
>
>I can not reproduce both of them on my new laptop, on which two more lines
>in /root/.aptitude/config:
>
>APT "";
>APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>
>If I remove these two lines, the bug can be reproduced on my new laptop.

OK, thanks.

Marking as serious so this doesn't propagate to testing.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>