[Aptitude-devel] Bug#815581: aptitude crashes when trying to show information about packages that are not installed

nkiesel nk at iname.com
Mon Feb 22 17:48:12 GMT 2016


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.6-1
Severity: important

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I just upgraded to the latest aptitude and I get a core dump when running
`aptitude show elpa-projectile` (which is a new package I don't have
installed).  `aptitude show aptitude` works.

lt-nkiesel:~% gdb --args aptitude show elpa-projectile
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Reading symbols from aptitude...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/aptitude show elpa-projectile
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffeffa3700 (LWP 32392)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff55e9d32 in _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s at entry=0x7fffffffcb20,
format=<optimized out>, format at entry=0x55555587bdb0 "%s (%s), upgrade available
(%s)", ap=ap at entry=0x7fffffffcf80) at vfprintf.c:1642
1642    vfprintf.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff55e9d32 in _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s at entry=0x7fffffffcb20,
format=<optimized out>, format at entry=0x55555587bdb0 "%s (%s), upgrade available
(%s)", ap=ap at entry=0x7fffffffcf80) at vfprintf.c:1642
#1  0x00007ffff5697a36 in ___vsnprintf_chk (s=0x7fffffffcd30 "not installed (",
maxlen=<optimized out>, flags=1, slen=<optimized out>, format=0x55555587bdb0
"%s (%s), upgrade available (%s)",
    args=0x7fffffffcf80) at vsnprintf_chk.c:63
#2  0x00007ffff716ba99 in cwidget::util::vssprintf[abi:cxx11](char const*,
__va_list_tag*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
#3  0x00007ffff716bddb in cwidget::util::ssprintf[abi:cxx11](char const*, ...)
() from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
#4  0x00005555556cc423 in ?? ()
#5  0x00005555556cc694 in ?? ()
#6  0x00005555556ce315 in ?? ()
#7  0x00005555556d0650 in ?? ()
#8  0x00005555556d0dc4 in ?? ()
#9  0x00005555556d1244 in ?? ()
#10 0x00005555556d16e1 in ?? ()
#11 0x00005555555b68ba in ?? ()
#12 0x00007ffff55c1870 in __libc_start_main (main=0x5555555b3460, argc=3,
argv=0x7fffffffe6d8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>,
rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe6c8)
    at libc-start.c:291
#13 0x00005555555be2a9 in ?? ()



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.6
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160220
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc37bd6000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f7176d2c000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f7176afc000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f71768d1000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f71766cb000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f71763ce000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f71760f7000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f7175edd000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f7175cc4000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f7175abf000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f71756bb000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f717549e000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7175122000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7174e1d000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7174c07000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7174862000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f717465f000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f717445b000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f7174243000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7174028000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f7173e18000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f7173bf4000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f71739e2000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f71737d9000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f71735d4000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000557937044000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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            0.7.6-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.3
ii  libboost-filesystem1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0   1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-system1.58.0      1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libc6                      2.21-9
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-9
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160213-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.11.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-9
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160213-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.6-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.34

-- no debconf information



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