update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

[psierra]

Binary package hint: dpkg

after installing updates today and restarting this error comes up

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: dpkg 1.15.8.2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 8 22:16:25 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
ProcCmdline: update-alternatives --remove-all ps2pdf
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7bb598: movzbl (%eax),%ecx
 PC (0x007bb598) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00000019) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: dpkg
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()
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StacktraceTop:
 __strcmp_ssse3 ()
 ?? () at ../../utils/update-alternatives.c:529
 main (argc=3, argv=0xbfa9f024)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 615100, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.