Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2014-02-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo This bug needs to be reevaluated since it's quite old and the other parts involved (including dpkg and apt) must have changed significantly in these 7 years. I am not sure if this situation of "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it befo

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:03:53PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > [..] > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > Writing extended state information... Done > > Reading package fields... Done > > Reading package status... Done > > Retrievi

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: [..] > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > Writing extended state information... Done > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > Retrieving bug reports... Done > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > de

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [patch]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:25:07AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:25:52PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PR

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [patch]

2006-09-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:25:52PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > So the second line has overwritte

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [patch]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > In > > vector &states = PackageOps[pkg]; > > pkg = 0, and is of type char *. It is created by this code further > > up; note the

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [more on error]

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In >vector &states = PackageOps[pkg]; > pkg = 0, and is of type char *. It is created by this code further > up; note the comments in the original: > > >

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [more on error]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
In vector &states = PackageOps[pkg]; pkg = 0, and is of type char *. It is created by this code further up; note the comments in the original: /* dpkg sends strings like this: 'status: : ' errors look like this:

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [better stacktrace]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:43:43PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: ... > If it's not too much trouble, I wonder if I could suggest that you > build a debug apt too? I believe you can do this by fetching the source > and running "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt,nostrip dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" > in the

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Here's the stack trace, which seems to indicate something going wrong > in libc (or the kernel?), with libstdc++ possibly adding another layer > of error on top of that. > > I don't know if the low-level

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the stack trace, which seems to indicate something going wrong in libc (or the kernel?), with libstdc++ possibly adding another layer of error on top of that. I don't know if the low-level exception is considered normal enough that it should be caught and dealt with. An excerpt from the gd

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hmm, while tring to install the build dependencies for aptitude I got > the same message, though I used apt-get: > > corn:~# apt-get -q build-dep aptitude > Reading package lists... > Building dependency

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Hmm, while tring to install the build dependencies for aptitude I got the same message, though I used apt-get: corn:~# apt-get -q build-dep aptitude Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: preview-latex-style texlive texlive-context texlive-do

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:51:06PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:17:52PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:15:27AM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:18:57A

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
I don't suppose the user whose system was affected can get this to happen in a debug build and get a backtrace? (looks like it's already fixed :( ) Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:20:11PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:21:00PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Package: aptitude > > Version: 0.4.2-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Severity note: the system experiencing this problem is currently

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:21:00PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 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 e

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
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