[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1035976: Bug#1035976: aptitude dies with SEGV

[Axel Beckert]

Control: found -1 0.8.13-3
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi Harald,

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Running aptitude without arguments in a ssh session to a remote
> host I see the "loading cache" message as usual, but then it dies
> with
> 
> 	Ouch!  Got SIGSEGV, dying..
> 	Segmentation fault
>
> aptitude update, upgrade etc work without problems, AFAICT.

I assume this happens primarily as root on the remote host.

> I can reproduce this on several remote hosts running Bullseye or
> Testing,

Marking as found in 0.8.13-3 then.

> so it must be related to my environment somehow (Testing
> on a desktop PC), but it doesn't tell.

Ack. Doesn't look like a repo issue. Except maybe, if there's a common
non-debian APT repo involved.

Oh, and since about when is this happening? I assume this showed up
only recently, not for years. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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