Segfaults on powerpc platform

[Tim Verhoeven]

On 4/17/07, Tim Verhoeven <tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
>
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> >
> > The first step is to get backtraces from the crash(es), preferrably with
> > apt-debuginfo package installed:
> > # gdb apt-get
> > (gdb) run <apt command here, eg "install pkg">
> > ..and when it crashes, do
> > (gdb) bt
> >
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>
> # gdb apt-get
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> This GDB was configured as "ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host
> libthread_db library "/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) run upgrade
> Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 4159255552 (LWP 5663)]
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   ImageMagick-c++.32bit ImageMagick.32bit file.32bit firefox.32bit gnupg.32bit
>   libf2c libgcj libgnat.32bit libobjc mysql mysql.32bit samba-client.32bit
>   samba-common samba-common.32bit seamonkey-nspr.32bit seamonkey-nss.32bit
>   seamonkey.32bit tzdata xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.32bit
>   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.32bit xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
>   xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.32bit xorg-x11-font-utils.32bit xorg-x11-libs
>   xorg-x11-libs.32bit xorg-x11-xauth.32bit xorg-x11-xdm.32bit
>   xorg-x11-xfs.32bit xorg-x11.32bit
> 31 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 4159255552 (LWP 5663)]
> 0x0ff50e44 in pkgRecords (this=0xffffd940, Cache=@0x10076dc8) at
> pkgrecords.cc:43
> 43            Files[I->ID] = Type->CreatePkgParser(I);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0ff50e44 in pkgRecords (this=0xffffd940, Cache=@0x10076dc8) at
> pkgrecords.cc:43
> #1  0x10008bd0 in InstallPackages (Cache=@0xffffdf60, ShwKept=Variable
> "ShwKept" is not available.
> ) at ../include/apt-pkg/cachefile.h:40
> #2  0x28000448 in ?? ()
> #3  0x1000b200 in DoUpgrade (CmdL=Variable "CmdL" is not available.
> ) at apt-get.cc:1066
> #4  0x0feb54cc in CommandLine::DispatchArg (this=0xffffe310,
> Map=0xffffe290, NoMatch=true) at contrib/cmndline.cc:340
> #5  0x1000fe44 in main (argc=2, argv=Variable "argv" is not available.
> ) at apt-get.cc:2391
> #6  0xf7eb088c in generic_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #7  0xf7eb09d4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #8  0x00000000 in ?? ()

Hi Panu,

I'm trying to push you, but I would like to know if you already had
some time to look at this ? Also, if you need more info from me or
other things I need to test, just let me know.

Thanks,
Tim

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