Thanks for your bug report. I made it public as it does not contain any sensitive information. I'm not entirely sure why this is happening, but I might dig into it a bit later.
** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747180 Title: SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetPriority() Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Continuous Crashes, especialle when you see video, generate Core Dumps You can solve restarting Ubuntu 16.04 Kernel 4.4.0-122-generic apt 1.2.24 ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: apt 1.2.24 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-112.135-generic 4.4.98 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Sat Feb 3 11:43:46 2018 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-get InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-22 (468 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) ProcCmdline: apt-get install vidcutter SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f4963a9a5ef <_ZN9pkgPolicy11GetPriorityERKN8pkgCache11VerIteratorEb+143>: testb $0x1,0x28(%rdx) PC (0x7f4963a9a5ef) ok source "$0x1" ok destination "0x28(%rdx)" (0x7f4962f85858) in non-writable VMA region: 0x7f4962f82000-0x7f4963182000 ---p /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so SegvReason: writing VMA /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so Signal: 11 SourcePackage: apt StacktraceTop: pkgPolicy::GetPriority(pkgCache::VerIterator const&, bool) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer(pkgCache::PkgIterator const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 pkgDepCache::Init(OpProgress*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 pkgCacheFile::BuildDepCache(OpProgress*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 Title: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetPriority() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1747180/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp