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python-apt crashes when creating the cache

Bug #81048 reported by Toni on 2007-01-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #338971: totem-gstreamer crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgMakeStatusCache(). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

A message says "Python closes unspectedly" (or something like that) continuosly, after cleaning old instalation packages downloaded with apt-get or synaptic. The same message appears everytime I try to "apt-get update".

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Toni (antoniopintodeoliveira) wrote on 2007-01-22:

Bug report Edit (4.8 MiB, text/plain)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-03-21:

Thanks for your bugreport.

Is this still a issue with the current feisty python-apt/update-notifier?

Thanks,
michael

Changed in update-notifier:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-05-23:

Here is the crash:

#0 0xb7df9cbb in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#0 0xb7df9cbb in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb7b8c186 in std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb7c4a046 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb7c75a76 in debListParser::ParseProvides ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xb7c76076 in debListParser::NewVersion ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb7c4af18 in pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xb7c860ef in debPackagesIndex::Merge ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#7 0xb7c4c0aa in pkgCacheGenerator::pkgCacheGenerator ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#8 0xb7c4da22 in pkgMakeStatusCache ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#9 0xb7c42d8a in pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb7c42e84 in pkgCacheFile::Open ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
No symbol table info available.