Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Aptitude crashes when removing certain packages (not all), whether using remove or purge, command line or curses UI. Apt-get can remove the same package just fine. The issue seems possibly related to multiarch. I ran: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo aptitude update I then installed wine32:i386. I already had wine:amd64 and wine64:amd64 installed. I removed wine64:amd64 and wine64-bin:amd64 without problems. Attempting to run sudo aptitude -v -v -v purge wine or sudo aptitude -v -v -v purge wine32:i386 crashes with no output, just status 139, SIGSEGV. This is true whether I use "purge" or "remove". No entry is made in /var/log/aptitude/aptitude.log. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.3 compiled at Oct 7 2015 23:33:19 Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20151003 Compiled against: apt version 4.16.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.1 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.16.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe6d68000) libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007f5fe916b000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f5fe8f3b000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f5fe8d11000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5fe8b0b000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f5fe880c000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f5fe853f000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f5fe8326000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f5fe7f24000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f5fe7d07000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f5fe798c000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f5fe768b000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f5fe7475000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5fe70cc000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f5fe6ec9000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f5fe6cc5000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f5fe6aaa000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f5fe689a000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f5fe6677000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f5fe646f000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f5fe626a000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f5fe9a90000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.3-1 ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-3+b1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-21 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.1-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-21 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.21-1.2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.3-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47 pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information