Re: Bug#478409: problem with SEGV still persists
severity 478409 grave
thanks
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Simon wrote:
> I have an in-progress Etch->Lenny upgrade going and the problem still
> persists with the perl segfaults. I would consider this to be grave
> since debconf cannot run properly, and makes most of the configuration
> of packages useless and very broken.
Wow, that's bad news. I'm raising the severity and
cc'ing the debian-powerpc list.
I assume this is triggered by some combination of Etch and Lenny packages
during the upgrade. Can you supply the dpkg and apt/aptitude logs
up until the failure?
Is libc6 upgraded yet? (The perl-base pre-dependency says it should,
but I can't think of much else.)
Which kernel are you running on?
If your system is still broken, does just
# perl -e 'use Fcntl'
segfault, or is there some other simple testcase?
> I've been trying to work around it since early this morning $localtime
> (7:30 EST, n. america, it is now almost 18:00), and no matter what I
> do, it crashes. The perl* version I have is 5.10.0-19, the latest as of
> this writing. Still seems to have odd crashes, "undefined symbol"
> errors, Perl_pv_something in Fnctl/Fnctl.so and other compiled modules.
The ldd errors you mentioned in a followup are normal AFAICS: perl
dlopen()'s the shared objects and so the symbols are defined at runtime.
> Also, the libperl5.10 package seems to be empty? Is that normal?
Yes. See the package description.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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