Public bug reported: ** I have not managed to use apport to report this (apport itself is crashing). I have attached the .crash and pasted the gdb backtrace below. **
KERNEL: 3.5.0-7-generic #7-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 31 07:22:20 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux RELEASE: 12.10 (Quantal) The following is caused by invoking dpkg-query using double quotation marks (instead of single quotation marks) in the command syntax: sudo dpkg-query -W -f="${provides}" apt dpkg-query: error in show format: H�C0 *** glibc detected *** dpkg-query: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f75dc7dcc84 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7e506)[0x7f75dc7df506] dpkg-query[0x4091a3] dpkg-query[0x404473] dpkg-query[0x402779] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f75dc78276d] dpkg-query[0x4027ed] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-0041f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2904021 /usr/bin/dpkg-query 0061e000-0061f000 r--p 0001e000 08:01 2904021 /usr/bin/dpkg-query 0061f000-00620000 rw-p 0001f000 08:01 2904021 /usr/bin/dpkg-query 00620000-00734000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 0180b000-0182c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f75dc280000-7f75dc295000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 524420 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f75dc295000-7f75dc494000 ---p 00015000 08:01 524420 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f75dc494000-7f75dc495000 r--p 00014000 08:01 524420 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f75dc495000-7f75dc496000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 524420 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f75dc496000-7f75dc761000 r--p 00000000 08:01 2889281 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 7f75dc761000-7f75dc913000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 525233 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f75dc913000-7f75dcb13000 ---p 001b2000 08:01 525233 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f75dcb13000-7f75dcb17000 r--p 001b2000 08:01 525233 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f75dcb17000-7f75dcb19000 rw-p 001b6000 08:01 525233 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f75dcb19000-7f75dcb1e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f75dcb1e000-7f75dcb40000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 525223 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7f75dcd1d000-7f75dcd20000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f75dcd3d000-7f75dcd40000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f75dcd40000-7f75dcd41000 r--p 00022000 08:01 525223 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7f75dcd41000-7f75dcd43000 rw-p 00023000 08:01 525223 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7fff26009000-7fff2602a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff26057000-7fff26058000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] BT: Core was generated by `dpkg-query -W -f= apt'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007faec01e8405 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 64 ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 0x00007faec01e8405 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #1 0x00007faec01ebb6b in __GI_abort () at abort.c:91 #2 0x00007faec0225d0e in __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x7faec032dfd0 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:201 #3 0x00007faec0230506 in malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7faec032af81 "free(): invalid pointer", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:5007 #4 0x00000000004091a3 in dpkg_error_destroy (err=err@entry=0x7fff3695e690) at ../../../lib/dpkg/error.c:91 #5 0x0000000000404473 in showpackages (argv=0x7fff3695e800) at ../../src/querycmd.c:521 #6 0x0000000000402779 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fff3695e800) at ../../src/querycmd.c:865 Regards, Effenberg ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: dpkg-query -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1035512 Title: glibc detected *** dpkg-query: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f75dc7dcc84 *** To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1035512/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs