apt-get update/upgrade coredumps

[Constantine Evans]

You're used to Debian, aren't you? And you used reportbug to report this?

Unfortunately, reportbug is actually completely useless in Ubuntu, and 
will just result in other list readers admonishing you for spamming the 
mailing list with bug reports. I'm not sure why we keep it in main, 
which signals to users that it actually works.

You will want to report this to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu

To other list readers: Please don't complain to Roberto about his 
posting bug reports here. Complain about reportbug being in main, 
without any indication to users that it sends bug reports to the wrong 
place.

Constantine


Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.45ubuntu14
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> I've collected a bt for your viewing pleasure (probably not very 
> helpful):
> 
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Core was generated by `apt-get update'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xb7d02c53 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7d02c53 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #1  0xb7e8a186 in std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> #2  0xb7f86a27 in debPackagesIndex::FindInCache ()
>    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
> #3  0xbff1b2ac in ?? ()
> #4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
> 
> The following is a bit special, but might not be influencial to this 
> core dumping behaviour:
> 
> Ign http://download.skype.com stable/non-free Translation-en_US
> 99% [5 Translation-en_US bzip2 0] [Release gpgv 19613] [Waiting for 
> headers] [Wbzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> 
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- apt-config dump --
> 
> APT "";
> APT::Architecture "i386";
> APT::Build-Essential "";
> APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
> APT::Install-Recommends-Section "metapackages";
> APT::Periodic "";
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
> APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
> APT::Acquire "";
> APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
> Dir "/";
> Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
> Dir::State::lists "lists/";
> Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
> Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
> Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
> Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
> Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
> Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
> Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
> Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
> Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
> Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
> Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
> Dir::Bin "";
> Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
> Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
> aptitude "";
> aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "^linux-image.*$ | ^linux-restricted-modules.*$";
> DPkg "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
> Acquire "";
> Acquire::http "";
> Acquire::http::Proxy "false";
> 
> -- /etc/apt/preferences --
> 
> Package: tora
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 2000
> 
> 
> -- /etc/apt/sources.list --
> 
> deb http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe multiverse
> #deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free
> 
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main universe 
> deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free 
> deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-latest dapper main
> deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-latest dapper main
> 
> # Bleeding edge wine packages (packages)
> deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
> 
> # VLC nightlies
> deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/dapper-i386 /
> 
> ## Improved Font rendering packages
> deb http://www.elisanet.fi/mlind/ubuntu dapper fonts
> 
> # Skype packages
> deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
> 
> # NuFW
> deb http://www.nufw.org/debian/ testing/
> 
> # Newest Frozen Bubble
> deb http://thomas.enix.org/pub/debian/packages edgy main
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc2-g4e4398f1
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages apt depends on:
> ii  libc6                  2.4-1ubuntu12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-13ubuntu5 GCC support library
> ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-13ubuntu5   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> 
> Versions of packages apt recommends:
> ii  ubuntu-keyring              2005.01.12.1 GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive
> 
> -- no debconf information
>