Comment 0 for bug 129604

Binary package hint: debconf

Running the adept updater via the system tray icon and updating to the latest releases for 7.10 beta, I noticed that when I had it showing me details, I was seeing "stack smashing detected" warnings and then perl was being aborted which corresponds to the packages that failed and caused the errors to be generated. This ultimately caused Adept to error out with the following error "There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.". I have not yet tried to manually upgrade via apt-get dist-upgrade to see if that fixes anything, though I don't think it will. I'll probably try a reboot and see if any of the packages that had been upgraded just needed to be in a clean state or something.

This was on a fresh install of 7.10 beta2 that I've updated every couple of days as I've had time to play with things.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 31 21:16:57 2007
Disassembly: 0xfe5aa510:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: debconf 1.5.14
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
ProcCwd: /home/james
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: debconf
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: dpkg-preconfigure crashed with SIGSEGV in abort()
Uname: Linux frodo 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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