Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition
> > (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch
> > of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your
> > friend's machine, here is what I have on up-to-date Sid/amd64:
A good suggestion. Very likely related. I manually walked through
the packages and upgraded them with dpkg -i perl-foo_X.Y.deb and I
think all of them are now at current Sid levels. Unfortunately the
dpkg segfault continues.
I also found a large number of removed-config state packages.
dpkg -l | awk '$1~/^rc/{print$2}'| wc -l
469
Mostly libraries.
dpkg -l | awk '$1~/^rc/&&$2~/^lib/{print$2}' | wc -l 345
Those seem safe to purge so purging them to simplify things somewhat.
dpkg -l | awk '$1~/^rc/{print$2}'| wc -l
124
I am able to manually upgrade by 'dpkg -i' for individual packages. A
little tedious. But making some progress. I am going to try to get
perl completely up to date. That hopefully will fix the sig segv
problem.
Thanks!
Bob
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