Marty wrote:
Marty wrote:
I reported Bug#301912, consisting of repeated perl warnings and
segfaults during package installation.

It turns out to likely be hardware data corruption caused by a new
memory module or changed timing.  I caught it by the venerable
"burnit" kernel compile loop script, aided by distcc to keep cycle
times reasonably low.  Overnight memtest and debsum loops did not
cause a failure, but dpkg was failing about every third run.
Sorry about the false alarm.

Marty



If possible, try different memory modules.  For some reason, dpkg seems
particularly sensitive to memory errors.

I once got repeated segfaults and perl warnings due to memory errors,
when almost no other test (including memtest) was able to detect the failures.


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