[Synaptic-devel] Strange segfault

[Andrey Tarassov]

Hi!

I have encountered a very strange problem with synaptic? Namely, we have 
a repository that may be accessed from both http and ftp using the same 
address and the repository is signed with GPG.

Now, the problem is that if you press the refresh button on startup 
(after some time this is not even required) and edit repositories, 
pressing refresh again causes synaptic to crash.

There is only one thing I am editing in repositories: ftp -> http and 
vice versa. Nothing else. I also encountered this problem before with 
some other changes, but know I have found a possibility to reproduce the 
bug easily.

I looked deeper into the problem and tried to trace the problem with 
gdb. I found that the segfault appeared in pkgAcqIndexRel::Done(), but 
could not find why it was happening as everything seemed to be ok.

Have you heard about such a problem and does anyone know about how to 
solve it?

FYI, I am using synaptic-0.48.1 and apt-rpm 0.15.5cnc6.

Thanks,

Andrey

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