Package: doc-base Version: 0.8.10 Severity: normal I tried to upgrade my unstable chroot today and noticed that install-docs was segfaulting:
$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: exim4-daemon-light openoffice.org-dev-doc 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ... Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up openoffice.org-dev-doc (1:2.4.0-4) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-dev-doc.postinst: line 6: 922 Segmentation fault (core dumped) install-docs -i /usr/share/doc-base/udk-java-ref dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-dev-doc (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light openoffice.org-dev-doc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ... Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up openoffice.org-dev-doc (1:2.4.0-4) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-dev-doc.postinst: line 6: 1218 Segmentation fault (core dumped) install-docs -i /usr/share/doc-base/udk-java-ref dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-dev-doc (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light openoffice.org-dev-doc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done It produced a core file but it did not retry with debugging symbols yet: $ gdb -c core GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". (no debugging symbols found) Core was generated by `/usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/install-docs -i /usr/share/doc-base/udk-java-ref'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 1218] #0 0x0811154e in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x0811154e in ?? () (gdb) info register eax 0x8150008 135593992 ecx 0xb7c29008 -1211985912 edx 0x816c3e0 135709664 ebx 0x816c3e0 135709664 esp 0xbf507f30 0xbf507f30 ebp 0xbf5080e8 0xbf5080e8 esi 0xbf907230 -1081052624 edi 0x2488 9352 eip 0x811154e 0x811154e eflags 0x10286 [ PF SF IF RF ] cs 0x73 115 ss 0x7b 123 ds 0x7b 123 es 0x7b 123 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x33 51 (gdb) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages doc-base depends on: ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-16 A free electronic cataloging syste doc-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

