I got the following backtrace after installaing and attaching gdb to the running frontend: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x40017c45 in strvacat () from /usr/lib/libdebconf.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0x40017c45 in strvacat () from /usr/lib/libdebconf.so.1 #1 0x0000000b in ?? () (gdb) I tried to look at the source (slang.c), but did not see anything obviously wrong.