dpkg-preconfigure crashed with SIGSEGV in Perl_pp_subst()

[Vinay]

Rebooted the system, there were 20 crashes and this was the only one I was able to submit, rest of them the report problem app itself is crashing

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: debconf 1.5.23ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: debconf
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x080b58fb in Perl_pp_subst ()
 #1 0x080b22e9 in Perl_runops_standard ()
 #2 0x080b0750 in perl_run ()
 #3 0x08063ebd in main ()
StacktraceTop:
 Perl_pp_subst ()
 Perl_runops_standard ()
 perl_run ()
 main ()
Title: dpkg-preconfigure crashed with SIGSEGV in Perl_pp_subst()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:Perl_pp_subst ()
Perl_runops_standard ()
perl_run ()
main ()

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

If you're getting lots of crashes, it sounds like you have a deeper problem, perhaps hardware (e.g. memory) problems. All the same, debconf itself is purely interpreted and if the perl interpreter crashes then that's its problem.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version has died long ago; no more supported