Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)
Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2010 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Hi,
>
> since yesterday I get a series of segmentation faults on my system
> which makes it impossible to install or upgrade packages or even start
> X. The system is inside a virtualbox so I don't think that hardware
> errors are the cause. I don't remember having changed anything
> fundamental in this system when the errors occured.
>
> For example, if I want to install or reconfigure a package, I get a
> segmentation fault:
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> Segmentation fault
>
> This happens with every other package as well. I have traced the fault
> to /usr/share/debconf/frontend and indeed running it directly also
> invokes a segfault:
>
> # perl /usr/share/debconf/frontend
> Segmentation fault
>
> I have attached the last few lines of the strace output for the
> previous command to this mail.
>
> Please, can someone tell me how to fix this?
>
> - Fabian
>
> PS: Please keep me CC'ed, I am not subscribed to -devel.
Hi Fabian,
maybe you could try to do an apt-get update (do not use aptitude for this
time), so you might get a stable system. If this does not work, you might try
to downgrade some packages or libs to testing.
Downgrading to testing would be my very first idea, to get a stable system.
There is a blog, how to downgrade. Google will help you.
If it is running again, just upgrade your packages to unstable one after the
other, so you might discover, which is the package, that makes problems.
Mixing testing and unstable is no good idea, except for applications which do
not direct interfere withe the system itself (for example OpenOffice.org)
Good luck!
Hans-J. Ullrich
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