segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)
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.
sched_getparam(1110, { 0 }) = 0
sched_getscheduler(1110) = 0 (SCHED_OTHER)
clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {0, 1}) = 0
sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
gettimeofday({1280912650, 795144}, NULL) = 0
open("/usr/lib/charset.alias", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2570, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb765c000
read(7, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2570
read(7, "", 4096) = 0
close(7) = 0
munmap(0xb765c000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
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