Marty wrote:
Marty wrote:I reported Bug#301912, consisting of repeated perl warnings and segfaults during package installation.It turns out to likely be hardware data corruption caused by a new memory module or changed timing. I caught it by the venerable "burnit" kernel compile loop script, aided by distcc to keep cycle times reasonably low. Overnight memtest and debsum loops did not cause a failure, but dpkg was failing about every third run. Sorry about the false alarm. Marty
If possible, try different memory modules. For some reason, dpkg seems particularly sensitive to memory errors. I once got repeated segfaults and perl warnings due to memory errors, when almost no other test (including memtest) was able to detect the failures.