Bug#397678: main-menu: segfaults on amd64 after "Set up users and passwords" step

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> Package: main-menu
> Severity: grave
>
> After configuring users and passwords in d-i screen starts blinking and
> following messages appear at console (may contain typos):
>
> process: ###): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
>
> On other console, following messages appear:
>
> init: starting pid ### console /dev/vc/1: '/sbin/debian-installer'
> debconf: setting debconf/language to uk
> kernel: main-menu[###]: segfault at ################ rip ################ error 4
>
> I used image downloaded from 
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso
>
> Image was built on 20061106. I also tried to run installation in English
> and got the same results (except that language in debconf's meesage was en).

Eugeny, were you installing textual (NEWT) or graphical (GTK) ?
We experienced a similar crash (#373253 and #396520) with the g-i on 
AMD64 and it would b einteresting investigating if bugs are somehow related.

cheers

Attilio