debconf-communicate crashed with SIGSEGV in write()

[Erik B. Andersen]

Binary package hint: debconf

I was trying to install compiz plugins extra via Ubuntu Software Center, and I got this error, however, USC stayed open and the package was installed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 25 22:03:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/debconf-communicate
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100217)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: debconf 1.5.28ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f7a8157c9d2 <Perl_csighandler+34>: testb $0x1,0xa80(%rax)
 PC (0x7f7a8157c9d2) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0xa80(%rax)" (0x00000a80) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: debconf
StacktraceTop:
 write () from /lib/libc.so.6
 _IO_file_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
 _IO_do_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
Title: debconf-communicate crashed with SIGSEGV in write()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Erik B. Andersen (azendale)]

I'm not sure if this is the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/159640 , which was from 7.10 on i386, and I wanted to get apport to upload the crash information.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __write_nocancel ()
 _IO_new_file_write (f=0x7f7a80e39780,
 _IO_new_do_write (fp=0x7f7a80e39780,
 _IO_flush_all_lockp (do_lock=<value optimized out>)
 _IO_cleanup () at genops.c:1010

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported