dpkg segfault at the end of ubiquity install

[Adam Conrad]

This is the crash dump from the dpkg segv at the end of ubiquity's run.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: dpkg 1.18.9ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-30.49-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Thu Jul 7 17:53:22 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/dpkg
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160706)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 LC_COLLATE=C
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 namenodetouse (namenode=0x0, pkg=pkg@entry=0x55e88cd3f770, pkgbin=pkgbin@entry=0x55e88cd3f7c0) at ../../src/help.c:58
 removal_bulk_remove_configfiles (pkg=0x55e88cd3f770) at ../../src/remove.c:533
 removal_bulk (pkg=pkg@entry=0x55e88cd3f770) at ../../src/remove.c:637
 deferred_remove (pkg=0x55e88cd3f770) at ../../src/remove.c:192
 process_queue () at ../../src/packages.c:288

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

This should be fixed in 1.18.9ubuntu2

[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/1599961