frontend crashed with SIGSEGV in localtime_r@plt()

[Gerald Teschl]

crash during installing Updates

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: debconf 1.5.42ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 26 09:16:47 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/debconf/frontend
ExecutableTimestamp: 1331817673
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/libssl1.0.0:amd64.postinst configure 1.0.1-2ubuntu1
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: debconf
StacktraceTop:
 localtime_r@plt () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.14
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: frontend crashed with SIGSEGV in localtime_r@plt()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 localtime_r@plt () from /tmp/tmpZM5CSV/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.14
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[Gerald Teschl (gerald-teschl)]

output from command-line

sudo apt-get upgrade

Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert (Upgrade):
  alsa-utils apturl apturl-common emacs23 emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common
  evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-control-center
  gnome-control-center-data hdparm libcamel-1.2-29 libebackend-1.2-1
  libebook-1.2-12 libecal-1.2-10 libedata-book-1.2-11 libedata-cal-1.2-13
  libedataserver-1.2-15 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libgnome-control-center1
  linux-firmware mawk modemmanager openssl
24 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
1 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
Es müssen noch 0 B von 58,7 MB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
Nach dieser Operation werden 20,5 kB Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
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E: Internal Error, No file name for libssl1.0.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joan Miquel Torres Rigo (joanmiquel)]

I had the same problem and I could fix it by manually installing libssl1.0.0 from:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libssl-dev

I needed to kill a process which were locking /var/cache/debconf/config.dat before (I don't know if only killing this process could be solved the problem).

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joanmi@alpha:~$ sudo dpkg -i /home/joanmi/Baixades/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1-4ubuntu3_i386.deb
dpkg: avís: s'està desactualitzant libssl1.0.0 de 1.0.1-4ubuntu5 a 1.0.1-4ubuntu3.
(S'està llegint la base de dades… hi ha 347123 fitxers i directoris instaŀlats actualment.)
S'està preparant per a reemplaçar libssl1.0.0 1.0.1-4ubuntu5 (fent servir …/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1-4ubuntu3_i386.deb)…
S'està desempaquetant el reemplaçament de libssl1.0.0…
S'està configurant libssl1.0.0 (1.0.1-4ubuntu3)…
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: El recurs no es troba disponible temporalment
dpkg: s'ha produït un error en processar libssl1.0.0 (--install):
 el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 1
S'han trobat errors en processar:
 libssl1.0.0
joanmi@alpha:~$ sudo su
root@alpha:/home/joanmi# fuser /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat: 11806
root@alpha:/home/joanmi# ps 11806
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
11806 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production /etc/p
root@alpha:/home/joanmi# kill 11806
root@alpha:/home/joanmi# dpkg -i /home/joanmi/Baixades/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1-4ubuntu3_i386.deb
-8<--------------------------------

After that, I finally could execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and it exits normally.