Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal Severity note: the system experiencing this problem is currently unable to install or upgrade any packages (at least with aptitude). This error arose in connection with that problem, and this error may have contributed to the problem. So the bug might warrant higher severity.
On the other hand, the crash may be a side effect of a packaging problem with texlive. When I try to remove texlive with aptitude I get dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid Aborted (It is possible things got in such a bad state partly because aptitude crashed earlier and didn't have a chance to clean up). For more context, see my bug 384945 against texlive and the thread around http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/08/msg02805.html (others with same problem). The author the message that last link refers to said he's discussed the problem on #debian-devel and filed a bug, but that bug seems to be against dvipdfm (which certainly does need fixing). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp 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]
