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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + unreproducible moreinfo

Hi Rouven-Matthias,

Rouven-Matthias Müller wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
[…]
> 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

Hrm. Several things don't fit here:

a) I can't reproduce this, neither with aptitude nor with apt-get.
b) If aptitude and apt-get are affected it's likely an issue in the
   package apt and not aptitude. (Easily fixable by reassigning. But
   let's wait with that…)
c) This smells a lot like https://bugs.debian.org/848798 in the
   package binutils. But then again, that issue is only present in
   unstable and not stable while you reported that bug report from a
   stable/jessie release as it seems

Any chance that there was a stable/unstable mixup when writing the bug
report?

If not: Are there any traces of a file system corruption (e.g. in the
output of dmesg or so)?

What does "debsums -c apt libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12" or "dpkg
--verify apt libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12" say?

		Regards, Axel
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