Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #708812 Same symptom as original reporter. Also got similar strace log. I'll add a gdb backtrace (with aptitude-dbg installed), but there's almost no useful information either.
-- Package-specific info: Terminal: screen $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x773ec000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x773b0000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x77380000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x7736c000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x7723c000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x77174000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x76f30000) libz.so.1 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x76f08000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x76e3c000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x76e14000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libpthread.so.0 (0x76de8000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x76cdc000) libm.so.6 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libm.so.6 (0x76c54000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x76c18000) libc.so.6 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libc.so.6 (0x76aa0000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libutil.so.1 (0x76a8c000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libdl.so.2 (0x76a78000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x76a54000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x76a3c000) librt.so.1 => /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/librt.so.1 (0x76a24000) /lib/ld.so.1 (0x55550000) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: mipsel (mips64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-loongson-2f Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.8 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.2 ii libc6 2.17-3 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.0-7 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20130504-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.16.2-1 ii libstdc++6 4.8.0-7 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130504-1 ii libxapian22 1.2.15-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.15 -- no debconf information
Load new symbol table from "/usr/bin/aptitude-curses"? (y or n) Reading symbols from /usr/bin/aptitude-curses...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/56/4839ff0ae3b7a066789b92ee4488379f904c07.debug...done. done. Starting program: /usr/bin/aptitude [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/loongson2f/libthread_db.so.1". Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000 in ?? () Thread 1 (Thread 0x77fed130 (LWP 14804)): #0 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x00418e80 in _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ () No symbol table info available. Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC A debugging session is active. Inferior 1 [process 14804] will be killed. Quit anyway? (y or n)