apt: Apt SEGVs on most operations

[John Vivirito]

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> At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:34:45 +0300,
> Samium Gromoff wrote:
>> > 
>> > At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:53:04 -0500,
>> > Daniel T. Chen wrote:
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>>> > > Samium Gromoff wrote:
>>>>> > > >> And the bug report on launchpad is dated about half a week back before the last
>>>>> > > >> working version was released.
>>> > > 
>>> > > Have you tried the workaround in that bug report?
>> > 
>> > Yes, i tried it again, and it helps.
>> > 
>> > I was under impression it didn't, when i first seen it, though...
>> > 
>> > regards, Samium Gromoff
> 
> Oh, i am sorry for the continuous confusion from my side...
> 
> root at betelheise:/home/deepfire # rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
> root at betelheise:/home/deepfire # apt-get install seahorse
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> seahorse is already the newest version.
> Segmentation fault
> root at betelheise:/home/deepfire # rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
> root at betelheise:/home/deepfire # apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Segmentation fault
> 
> So, no, it does not help.
> 
> regards, Samium Gromoff

Is this on Edgy or Feisty. Can you file a bug report and attach the
crash report in /var/crash so we can see what its crashing on. More than
likely it is apt-index-watcher curropting the cache for apt. In feisty
this has been fixed. it has been fixed in edgy just not uploaded yet, ut
i would like to see the crash reports so we can pin point exactly what
is going on there.

Also the subject of this thread implies that its only some
apt/synaptic/adept related commands/apps. IIRC it has to do with libapt
(so anything using libapt is gonna crash) that excludes aptitude and
smartpm.
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