Subject: aptitude: Segfaults trying to install packages specified via "/unstable" Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** My system is testing; I pin to unstable via the following /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: -10 Which was quoted on wiki.debian.org as a way to allow apt-based installation of packages from unstable, while avoiding it unless specifically requested. I issued this command, and got the following output: nirvana:/home/ahunter# aptitude install sun-java5-bin/unstable sun-java5-jre/unstable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: gsfonts-x11 libltdl3 odbcinst1debian1 unixodbc The following NEW packages will be installed: gsfonts-x11 libltdl3 odbcinst1debian1 sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre unixodbc 0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 30.2MB of archives. After unpacking 84.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Segmentation faulttate information... 1% This happens with other packages (at the very least, same error on "aptitude install vlc/unstable") though I have not verified if it happens on every package. Apt-get appears to work, though I have refrained from trying it with these packages so I can replicate the error for you later. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.45 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.2-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
