debconf-communicate crashed with SIGSEGV in Perl_sv_upgrade() soon after precise amd64 installation

[Para Siva]

The crash occurred when firefox was opened soon after the installation of 20130201 precide amd64 desktop on a VM using virt-manager using KVM.

Steps:
1. Install precise desktop 20130201 amd64
2. Reboot after the installation and login
3. Double click firefox (twice): There was the warning pop up saying 'Firefox is already running, but is not responding...'
4. Crash occurred at this point

The crash file is attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: debconf 1.5.42ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35~precise1-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 1 12:25:57 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130201)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: debconf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1112448

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I manually tried recreating this bug report and was unsuccesful. Have you recreated it more than one time?

[Para Siva (psivaa)]

Thanks for attempting. I could not reproduce this more than once. I have tried in both amd64 and i386 images but with no further success.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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