[Aptitude-devel] Bug#810020: Bug#810020: aptitude: sometimes crashes when reading changelogs

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 05.01.2016 18:46, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > since upgrading to apt > 1.1 aptitude sometimes crashes, when reading changelogs.
> > So far it happened four times in the last month.
> 
> I have found a quite reliable way to reproduce the crash:
>  * open the aptitude ncurses interface
>  * select one package (e.g. aptitude)
>  * press 'C' multiple times (at least twice) in a row, fast
>  * watch the segfault...

Indeed. With those instructions I can reproduce the issue with
aptitude 0.7.5-3 on amd64.

Thanks for bug report and the followup with more details.

		Regards, Axel
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