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aptitude segfault when trying to view help

Bug #159226 reported by Ihar Hrachyshka
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptitude (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Rolf Leggewie

Bug Description

Binary package hint: aptitude

Here is the session log:
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install alexandria
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libamazon-ruby libart2-ruby1.8 libgconf2-ruby libgconf2-ruby1.8
  libglade2-ruby libglade2-ruby1.8 libgnome2-ruby libgnome2-ruby1.8
  libgnomecanvas2-ruby1.8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alexandria libamazon-ruby libart2-ruby1.8 libgconf2-ruby
  libgconf2-ruby1.8 libglade2-ruby libglade2-ruby1.8 libgnome2-ruby
  libgnome2-ruby1.8 libgnomecanvas2-ruby1.8
0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1301kB of archives. After unpacking 4305kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ?
Commands:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$

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Ihar Hrachyshka (ihar-hrachyshka) wrote :
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Ihar Hrachyshka (ihar-hrachyshka) wrote :

It seems to be an upstream bug because the same behavior is for Debian Etch. Though I can't find where to report upstream bugs for this program.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

I can verify this in gutsy.

1) run "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade"
2) press the question mark to get more info
3) aptitude segfaults

upstream bugs can be reported to the bug tracker that the project has chosen. In case of debian, this bug tracker can be reached at http://bugs.debian.org. bug submissions have to be via email. Be aware that the debian bug tracker has *no* spam protection and is regularly harvested, use an account with good spam protection.

Changed in aptitude:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Funny, this works perfectly fine on one other machine I have.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Actually, it does not. It just took a little longer to crash ;-)

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

I'll add a few dupes over the next hour or so. Some of them have stack traces to look at.

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Thomas Ohms (tohms) wrote :

Cannot be confirmed on Hardy with version 0.4.9-2ubuntu5.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Indeed, this seems to be fixed in hardy.

booxter, can you please confirm, so we can close this bug report?

Changed in aptitude:
assignee: nobody → r0lf
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Ihar Hrachyshka (ihar-hrachyshka) wrote :

Yes, it's fixed in 8.04. You can close the bug.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

thanks for reporting back.

Changed in aptitude:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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