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apt crashes on initial installation of oneiric

Bug #848907 reported by Colin Watson
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eglibc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I attempted to install today's Kubuntu oneiric-alternate-i386.iso build, and got the attached apt crash. Unfortunately, and I'm sorry about this, I can't seem to reproduce it when I run the failing commands (basically 'apt-cdrom add' and 'apt-get update') by hand, and all I have to work with is a screenshot!

I'll see if I can drill down further. I don't think this is an isolated occurrence; the tester towards the end of bug 420080 seems to be experiencing the same symptoms.

Related branches

lp://staging/~mvo/apt/mvo
Ubuntu Core Development Team: Pending requested
Diff: 443 lines (+76/-48)
14 files modified
apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc (+10/-5)
doc/po/fr.po (+54/-32)
test/integration/framework (+1/-0)
test/integration/run-tests (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-autoremove (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-590438-broken-provides-thanks-to-remove-order (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-591882-conkeror (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-595691-empty-and-broken-archive-files (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-compressed-indexes (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-disappearing-packages (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-pdiff-usage (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-policy-pinning (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-ubuntu-bug-614993 (+1/-1)
Ubuntu Core Development Team: Pending requested
Diff: 73066 lines (+13639/-12297) (has conflicts)
76 files modified
apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc (+26/-2)
apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc (+2/-2)
apt-pkg/deb/debindexfile.cc (+13/-9)
apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc (+6/-0)
apt-pkg/deb/debsystem.cc (+2/-2)
apt-pkg/depcache.cc (+15/-1)
apt-pkg/packagemanager.cc (+3/-3)
apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc (+1/-0)
apt-pkg/pkgcache.h (+1/-1)
apt-pkg/policy.cc (+5/-4)
buildlib/debiandoc.mak (+2/-2)
buildlib/po4a_manpage.mak (+1/-1)
cmdline/apt-get.cc (+12/-0)
debian/apt.cron.daily (+15/-28)
debian/changelog (+158/-0)
debian/control (+1/-1)
doc/examples/configure-index (+1/-0)
doc/po/de.po (+292/-590)
doc/po/fr.po (+8/-4)
po/apt-all.pot (+278/-266)
po/ar.po (+278/-266)
po/ast.po (+299/-287)
po/bg.po (+278/-266)
po/bs.po (+278/-266)
po/ca.po (+375/-241)
po/cs.po (+278/-266)
po/cy.po (+278/-266)
po/da.po (+405/-226)
po/de.po (+350/-247)
po/dz.po (+278/-266)
po/el.po (+278/-266)
po/es.po (+278/-266)
po/eu.po (+278/-266)
po/fi.po (+278/-266)
po/fr.po (+278/-268)
po/gl.po (+278/-266)
po/he.po (+2/-2)
po/hu.po (+278/-266)
po/it.po (+284/-272)
po/ja.po (+278/-266)
po/km.po (+278/-266)
po/ko.po (+278/-266)
po/ku.po (+278/-266)
po/lt.po (+278/-266)
po/mr.po (+278/-266)
po/nb.po (+377/-236)
po/ne.po (+278/-266)
po/nl.po (+280/-268)
po/nn.po (+278/-266)
po/pl.po (+278/-266)
po/pt.po (+279/-267)
po/pt_BR.po (+278/-266)
po/ro.po (+278/-266)
po/ru.po (+279/-267)
po/sk.po (+278/-266)
po/sl.po (+278/-266)
po/sv.po (+278/-266)
po/th.po (+278/-266)
po/tl.po (+278/-266)
po/uk.po (+278/-266)
po/vi.po (+543/-535)
po/zh_CN.po (+278/-273)
po/zh_TW.po (+278/-266)
test/integration/Packages-policy-pinning (+12/-0)
test/integration/framework (+2/-1)
test/integration/run-tests (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-autoremove (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-590438-broken-provides-thanks-to-remove-order (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-bug-591882-conkeror (+5/-5)
test/integration/test-bug-595691-empty-and-broken-archive-files (+91/-0)
test/integration/test-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy (+22/-0)
test/integration/test-compressed-indexes (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-disappearing-packages (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-pdiff-usage (+1/-1)
test/integration/test-policy-pinning (+228/-0)
test/integration/test-ubuntu-bug-614993 (+62/-0)
lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/apt/ubuntu
lp://staging/ubuntu/oneiric/eglibc
lp://staging/ubuntu/oneiric/apt
lp://staging/~mvo/apt/debian-sid (Merged)
lp://staging/debian/apt
lp://staging/debian/experimental/apt
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu8

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apt (0.8.16~exp5ubuntu8) oneiric; urgency=low

  * cherry pick r1825 from lp:~mvo/apt/mvo:
    * apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc:
    - fix double delete (LP: #848907)
    - ignore only the invalid regexp instead of all options

  * cherry pick r2165 from lp:~donkult/apt/sid:
    [ David Kalnischkies ]
    * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
      - output list of virtual package providers to c1out in -q=1
        instead of /dev/null to unbreak sbuild (LP: #816155)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:23:09 +0200

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This happened because regcomp fails on character ranges in the C.UTF-8 locale. See discussion at http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2011/09/msg00114.html. For now I'm going to back out this eglibc change; C.UTF-8 is used during installation in various places and it's far too risky to make this kind of basic change to its semantics at this point in our release cycle.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package eglibc - 2.13-20ubuntu2

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eglibc (2.13-20ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Back out Debian r4943 ("Don't include ISO14651 collation rules in
    C.UTF-8 locale") for now; this breaks regcomp on character ranges, which
    exposed a bug in apt, and seems likely to cause other problems, so is
    too risky a change for this point in our release cycle (LP: #848907).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:37:32 +0100

Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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