Comment 2 for bug 548804

I've been able to manually reproduce the crash for a specimen package. Note that I had to copy-type this backtrace because I was unable to capture it using stdin/stderr redirection to a file.

$ chroot /target

# /usr/bin/dpkg-reconfigure docbook-xml
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (out) 0x107e3940
======= Backtrace: =======
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x82fe4)[0xfc2dfe4]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0xfc3367c]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_safesysfree+0x2c)[0xfef9f4c]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_sv_eq+0xd0)[0xff32cd0]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_pp_seq+0xd4)[0xff44364]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_runops_standard+0x40)[0xff12880]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(perl_run+0x360)[0xfeb4b70]
/usr/bin/perl(main+0x110)[0x10000af0]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1f73c)[0xfbca73c]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1f900)[0xfbca900]
======= Memory map: =======
Aborted
Segmentation fault
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (out) 0x101a5878
======= Backtrace: =======
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x82fe4)[0xfc2dfe4]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0xfc3367c]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_safesysfree+0x2c)[0xfef9f4c]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_sv_eq+0xd0)[0xff32cd0]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_pp_seq+0xd4)[0xff44364]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(Perl_runops_standard+0x40)[0xff12880]
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10(perl_run+0x360)[0xfeb4b70]
/usr/bin/perl(main+0x110)[0x10000af0]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1f73c)[0xfbca73c]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x1f900)[0xfbca900]
======= Memory map: =======
Aborted
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