[Bug 469012] Re: Installed apps using synaptic package manager, after install crash occurred

[Robert Roth]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. 9.10 reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
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** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Installed apps using synaptic package manager, after install crash
  occurred

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  Ubuntu 9.10, install software using synaptic package manager after
  install crash occurs

  ProblemType: Crash
  Architecture: i386
  CrashCounter: 1
  Date: Sun Nov  1 17:10:41 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt_check.py
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: update-notifier-common 0.90
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SegvAnalysis:
   Segfault happened at: 0x7b0f43 <strlen+51>:	mov    (%eax),%ecx
   PC (0x007b0f43) ok
   source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
   destination "%ecx" ok
  SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  StacktraceTop:
   strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
   pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList(pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser&, pkgCache::VerIterator*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
   debStatusIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress&) const
   ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
   pkgMakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&, OpProgress&, MMap**, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
  Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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