aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in _strstrip()

Binary package hint: dpkg

I think this is more a dpkg bug than aptitude or apt, because it seems that both fail on me in the same way. Any time I attempt install a package, It downloads, starts to install, and crashes with a seg fault. I then need to do a 'dpkg --configure -a' before I can try again. I am able to use apt to download the .deb (before it crashes), do a dpkg --configure, and then install using 'dpkg -i' it seems.

I just upgraded to Gutsy (I guess it's in Tribe 5 right now) from feisty, which was recently an edgy install.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 19 00:01:01 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: aptitude 0.4.6.1-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: aptitude -S /tmp/aptitudePUa6Ff/pkgstatesUfZv3g -u
ProcCwd: /home/bert
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 _strstrip () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgDPkgPM::ProcessDpkgStatusLine ()
 pkgDPkgPM::DoDpkgStatusFd ()
 pkgDPkgPM::Go () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgPackageManager::DoInstallPostFork ()
Title: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in _strstrip()
Uname: Linux catfish 2.6.22-11-generic #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 03:45:58 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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