[Aptitude-devel] Bug#848898: libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header

[Rouven-Matthias Müller]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

the debian security update for apt dated of 2016.12.13


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

invoke apt-get or aptitude at bash


   * What was the outcome of this action?

aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header

apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

normal operation of the program




-- Package-specific info:
$TERM not set.
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:
/usr/bin/aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.8.4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u2
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1+deb8u1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.31+deb8u1

-- no debconf information