update-alternatives crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

[Jānis Kangarooo]

Binary package hint: dpkg

while doin dist update terminal showed some crash and core dumped and crash came
when update finishd i reported this

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: dpkg 1.15.8.2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 13 00:09:40 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100701)
ProcCmdline: update-alternatives --remove-all ps2pdf
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=lv_LV.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb571aa: cmp (%edx),%al
 PC (0x00b571aa) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x00000019) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" 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:
 *__GI_strcoll (s1=0xbfef88ea "remove-all",
 main (argc=3, argv=0xbfef7ac4)

[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.