Raphael Hertzog wrote: > reassign 484469 perl > thanks > > Hi, > > Neither is this dpkg that's faulty: > /bin/sh: line 1: 10805 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure > --apt > > It simply looks like that perl segfaults whenever it has something to do. > > > Giovanni, you simply show the final problem but I suppose it didn't appear > suddenly that way... you did a dist-upgrade or something just before, > isn't it? Do you have a log of it?
You're right, I did a dist-upgrade that messed all up. The error
messages were the same, I'm pretty sure.
> Please give the output of the following commands in the situation where you
> have the problem:
> dpkg -l 'perl*'
> dpkg -l liblocale-gettext-perl
> perl -MLocale::gettext -e 'print gettext("hello\n")'
> perl -e 'print "hello\n"'
# dpkg -l 'perl*'
[snip]
iF perl 5.10.0-10
ii perl-base 5.10.0-10
un perl-doc <none>
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-10
un perl5 <none>
un perl5-base <none>
un perlapi-5.10.0 <none>
# dpkg -l liblocale-gettext-perl
[snip]
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4
# perl -MLocale::gettext -e 'print gettext("hello\n")'
Segmentation fault
# perl -e 'print "hello\n"'
Segmentation fault
> For future reference, the full log from the paste URL is:
> # apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> /bin/sh: line 1: 10805 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
> --apt
> Setting up debconf (1.5.21) ...
> dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
> Setting up perl (5.10.0-10) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst: line 19: 10810 Segmentation fault
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/rename rename /usr/bin/prename 60
> --slave /usr/share/man/man1/rename.1.gz rename.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/prename.1.gz
> dpkg: error processing perl (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libnet-ssleay-perl:
> libnet-ssleay-perl depends on perl (>= 5.10.0-9); however:
> Package perl is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing libnet-ssleay-perl (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debconf
> perl
> libnet-ssleay-perl
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Cheers,
It's definitely a perl bug... Am I the only one affected? It's a fresh
install of Lenny, I've only done some upgrades. Maybe a RAM issue caused
this? Can I restore a previous version of perl copying manually
package's files from a working installation of Lenny?
Giovanni
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