[Bug 473711] Re: aptitude crashes when trying to free an invalid pointer

[Paul White]

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and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.

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Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  aptitude crashes when trying to free an invalid pointer

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: aptitude

  Version Information:
  Description:	Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:	9.10

  Package Information:
  python-psycopg2 aptitude
  libpq5:
    Installed: 8.4.1-1
    Candidate: 8.4.1-1
    Version table:
   *** 8.4.1-1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  postgresql:
    Installed: 8.4.1-1
    Candidate: 8.4.1-1
    Version table:
   *** 8.4.1-1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  postgresql-8.4:
    Installed: 8.4.1-1
    Candidate: 8.4.1-1
    Version table:
   *** 8.4.1-1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  postgresql-client-8.4:
    Installed: 8.4.1-1
    Candidate: 8.4.1-1
    Version table:
   *** 8.4.1-1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  postgresql-client-common:
    Installed: 101
    Candidate: 101
    Version table:
   *** 101 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  postgresql-common:
    Installed: 101
    Candidate: 101
    Version table:
   *** 101 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  python-egenix-mxdatetime:
    Installed: 3.1.2-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.1.2-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.1.2-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  python-egenix-mxtools:
    Installed: 3.1.2-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.1.2-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.1.2-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  python-psycopg2:
    Installed: 2.0.8-0ubuntu2
    Candidate: 2.0.8-0ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 2.0.8-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  aptitude:
    Installed: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6
    Candidate: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6
    Version table:
   *** 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I am running an Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 VM instance on Rackspace Cloud.  I
  attempted to install postgresql and psycopg2 and got a stack trace
  towards the end of the process (after "Writing extended state
  information... Done").  I tried to remove the packages (e.g. aptitude
  remove) and then re-install them (e.g. aptitude install) several times
  to reproduce the problem, but had no luck.

  I've attached the console output and the output of valgrind run with
  --leak-check=full

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Nov  4 02:58:39 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6
  ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-302.7-rs
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-302-rs x86_64

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