I have just encountered this bug trying to upgrade to Gutsy. And I
thought that by now it should be mature enough :(
At this point none of the recipes given above work, all I am getting is
dpkg --configure -a
Setting up debconf (1.5.14ubuntu1) ...
*** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl
Ok, I was right, it was a mismatch between perl and libraries it depends
on. Here is what I did. (This is all for Kubuntu but as the upgrade
manager died early in the process and I did everything from the command
line I presume this applies to Ubuntu as well). First I thought maybe it
installed
