depmod causes segmentation faults

[Christian Rishøj]

Binary package hint: module-init-tools

After installing Linux 2.6.23.9, depmod causes segmentation faults on my machine:

ska# depmod -a
zsh: segmentation fault depmod -a

Backtrace:

ska# gdb depmod
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(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run -a
Starting program: /sbin/depmod -a
(no debugging symbols found)
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7fff14bfd000
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00002b30961bf5b0 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00002b30961bf5b0 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000000000403b00 in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000403d01 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000403363 in ?? ()
#4 0x00002b3096164b44 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000401479 in ?? ()
#6 0x00007fff14b7e758 in ?? ()
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)