If this crash is fixed by the commit to which David pointed, then that is fixed in version 1.2.12 of apt which is now in Debian. Rather than waiting to see if that version does not appear in the errors bucket, keeping in mind there are only a handful of crashes about 1.2.11, I think we should upload the fix to -proposed for Xenial and see what happens.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538438 Title: apt-helper crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper%3A6%3A__gnu_cxx%3A%3A__verbose_terminate_handler%3A__cxxabiv1%3A%3A__terminate%3Astd%3A%3Aterminate%3A__cxxabiv1%3A%3A__cxa_throw%3Astd%3A%3A__throw_out_of_range_fmt Original Description -------------------- After installing flashplugin-installer I get a prompt noting: [START] Failure to download extra data files The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed. flashplugin-installer The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection. [END] Clicking the button Run this action now causes this crash consistently. Unfortunately, this has the negative outcome of disallowing folks who use Firefox from being able to update, or install Flash. There are a fair number of these events logged in errors.ubuntu.com. ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: apt 1.1.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jan 27 01:36:34 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-25 (276 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz SHA256:d322547d4542eeed2f57469cc0d3c10e9a55af6632c05be9fe8b6c6a0dbcffdb ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) Signal: 6SourcePackage: apt StacktraceTop: __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt(char const*, ...) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 Title: apt-helper crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-01-27 (0 days ago) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1538438/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
