Bug#468560: segfault on upgrade of libc6

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

	 Jarno wrote, on 2008-03-02 10:30:
> Arthur Marsh a écrit :
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.7-9
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > During an aptitude update I had the following:
> >
> > makayla:/var/cache/apt/archives# aptitude -u
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > (Reading database ... 99777 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.7-8 (using 
> > .../libc6-dev_2.7-9_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
> > Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-8 (using 
> > .../archives/libc6_2.7-9_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> > Setting up libc6 (2.7-9) ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: line 393:  3449 Segmentation 
> > fault      ldconfig
> >
> > I could not get the machine to respond after this and had to do a 
> > shut-down and reboot by the power button.
> >
> > After restart,
> > dpkg --configure -a
> >
> > worked fine.
>
> Is that reproducible? Are you sure it is not related to some hardware 
> problem? Or to a kernel problem?
>
> There is no change between the two versions that can explain this 
> behaviour, and even if ldconfig is really broken, I don't see how it 
> could lead to a freeze of the machine.

Apart from downgrading the machine to testing and then upgrading to 
unstable, I'm not sure that I could reproduce it. The only other clues I 
could offer besides the problem happening on a VIA chipset machine with 
an AMD Duron CPU, was that I was performing about a day's worth upgrades 
for the machine over a telnetd-ssl session.

Arthur.