The stacktrace in errors.ubuntu.com is great, it gives us some better
context to this issue:

The debconf-helper failed to copy this string to the debconf socket:
"10 Template type already set\n\0"

The stacktrace also gives us some stale memory contents:
"ered is not valid. The password used must be \nbetween 8 and 16 
characters.\n\n\0"

That presumably comes from the MOK enrollment when installing Nvidia
drivers. I'm not familiar with the process, but I've found resources
online saying that when installing the nvidia drivers on an secure-boot
system debconf will prompt the user asking to configure a password.

Knowing that the debconf helper in pkcon is broken on Wayland (bug
2086773), my guess would be that after failing to request a password
from the user, the other side of the socket closed communication which
resulted in EOF when the debconf helper tried to write some more, and
thus this crash.

If that's the case, fixing bug 2086773 would also fix the underlying
issue which triggered this bug.

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