Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
aptitude segmentation faults on start up, as root or normal user, on my armel machine. apt-get and other apt utilities seem fine. Weirdly when I use strace I no longer get the segmentation fault and aptitude will run. da...@thaney:~$ strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_user.out aptitude update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? da...@thaney:~$ aptitude update Segmentation fault da...@thaney:~$ su - Password: thaney:~# apt-get -q -q update ; apt-get -q -q upgrade thaney:~# aptitude -q -q update ; Segmentation fault thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out aptitude -q -q update ; Reading package lists... thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... thaney:~# aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade Segmentation fault Not sure what else I can provide to be useful.... Good (bug) hunting! David -- Package-specific info: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x40026000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x400d8000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x4011a000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x40126000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x401de000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x4024f000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40391000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x403ad000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x403cb000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x404a6000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40553000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40567000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x4068f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4069a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x40000000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY not set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-orion5x Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org