[Bug 830204] Re: aptitude-curses crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgInitSystem()

[jerrylamos]

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Title:
  aptitude-curses crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgInitSystem()

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Alpha 2 oneiric on T40 did sudo aptitude update and got this crash.

  Will attempt to update to Alpha3+ and try again.

  Jerry

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.8-generic 3.0.0
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Aug 20 15:41:57 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude-curses
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110724)
  ProcCmdline: aptitude update
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SegvAnalysis:
   Segfault happened at: 0x421608 <_Z13pkgInitSystemR13ConfigurationRP9pkgSystem+136>:	mov    (%eax),%edx
   PC (0x00421608) ok
   source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
   destination "%edx" ok
  SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  StacktraceTop:
   pkgInitSystem(Configuration&, pkgSystem*&) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10
   ?? ()
   ?? ()
   __libc_start_main () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
   ?? ()
  Title: aptitude-curses crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgInitSystem()
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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