Bug#240050: apt: same problem here

[Maarten Wijnen <mwijnen@cs.uu.nl>]

Package: apt
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #240050

I experience the same problem. I have just recently used apt-get, but
yesterday a problem occured at about the same moment I installed a new 
version of libgcc1.

I purged all the cache files and re-downloaded all Package-files as
the previous poster suggested. I haven't edited my sources.list in
several weeks, so it's known to be error-free.

This might be a strange coincedence. My computer is showing some hardware
malfunctioning, but these are quite infrequent and cause random failure.
The apt-get segfault is consistent, even between reboots as the previous
poster indicated, so I figure it's probably not related to hardware.

  # apt-get -u dist-upgrade
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%

I have only experienced the problem when apt-get tries to build the
"Tree" during '[dist|dselect-]upgrade', 'check', 'autoclean', 'remove'. 
On the other hand 'update' and 'clean' seem to be working fine.

  # ldd `which apt-get`
    libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3 (0x40025000)
    libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x400af000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40169000)
  > libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4018c000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40194000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

I hope this information might be of some use. Good luck!

Maarten

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
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::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";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q 'Status: install ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs -I -l -g -H misato.debian.or.jp --indexdir=/~taru/apt-listbugs/ --pin-priority=1000 apt; fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";

-- /etc/apt/preferences --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C