[Aptitude-devel] Bug#980053: Bug#980035: Bug#980035: aptitude: segmentation fault when starting aptitude

[Vincent Lefevre]

[moved to Cc: 980053]

Hi,

On 2021-01-13 15:33:00 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Hmm... I think that you should forget that test. I thought
> > that aptitude-run-state-bundle would only depend on files from
> > aptitude-segv.bundle, but it still reads some other files from
> > /var/lib according to strace. And now I get
> > 
> > --- Upgradable Packages (65)
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> > --- Upgradable Packages (61)
> > 
> > Since the crashes are very sensitive to the system status, the
> > above test might not be reliable.
> 
> Ack. That's now https://bugs.debian.org/980053 :-)

Well, 980053 is about aptitude-create-state-bundle. The above issue
is about aptitude-run-state-bundle. Perhaps this is due to the
aptitude-create-state-bundle bug, but I think that if a file is
missing, aptitude-run-state-bundle should fail, not fall back to
/var/lib files.

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