apt: Apt SEGVs on most operations

[Samium Gromoff]

At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:12:56 -0500,
John Vivirito wrote:
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> > At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:34:45 +0300,
> > Samium Gromoff wrote:
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> > 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
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> Is this on Edgy or Feisty.

Feisty.

> Can you file a bug report and attach the crash report in /var/crash
> so we can see what its crashing on.

Via Malone?

Btw, i have one thing as a wish here...

Using a web-interface is a PITA, for me.

There is documentation for using Malone via email, but it is too cumbersome
and does not appear to have the same level of automagical information collection
capacity as reportbug.

Would Ubuntu consider having a semi-anonymous[1] bugreport collection
mechanism with a console interface analogous to reportbug?

> 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.

I upgraded from 0.6.46.4ubuntu3 to 0.6.46.4ubuntu4 yesterday, and also
i use only apt, which means most of things are out of the loop for me...

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> GnomeFreak

[1] i say semi because malone appears to require strong authentication,
as opposed to forgeable email headers, which reportbug uses

regards, Samium Gromoff