Bug#304604: locales: Upgrading fails

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:18:39 +0200,
Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:44:38AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> The error comes from perl (debconf). Actually all debconf-using packages
> seem to be broken with libc-2.3.4; dpkg-reconfigure also dies with the
> same error.
>
> You may reassign this bug to perl, but if perl is not fixed before sarge
> (unlikely, since AFAIK perl is frozen, and the bug does not affect
> sarge), a more generic workaround might be needed for the sarge->etch
> transition (yeah, I know it is in the distant future ;-)
> 
> Ok, more stracing shows that the abort() happens when perl exits, so the
> bug would be harmless if malloc() & friends would just not call abort()
> by default.

Before we reassign to perl, we need to clear which setting triggers
your problem.  At least under my environment, this problem is not
appeared.  Could you confirm your environment settings (ex: LANG or
malloc related value), and perl versions?

Regards,
-- gotom