Bug#468560: segfault on upgrade of libc6
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:40:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
> 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
Yes that was what I was suggesting. Alternatively if you have a similar
machine that hasn't been upgraded yet, you can try to upgrade it.
> 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.
What about kernel 2.6.25-rc2 which might not be that stable?
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