Thanks for the quick response, Joey. On Mon 2008-04-28 22:11:38 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> perl -e 'use Debconf::ConfModule'
That does the trick, even as a non-root user:
0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'use Debconf::ConfModule'
Segmentation fault
139 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> What happens if you dpkg --configure locales ? Does the problem then
> stop happening?
0 clam:~# dpkg --configure locales
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
locales depends on glibc-2.7-1; however:
Package glibc-2.7-1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
1 clam:~# perl -e 'use Debconf::ConfModule'
Segmentation fault
139 clam:~#
> Your strace shows that it's just finished loading Encode.so when it
> crashes, which looks suspiciously like a problem involving
> locales. You might also try forcing your locale to C and seeing if
> that prevents the crash.
i'm never quite sure which environment variables are the relevant
ones, but i don't think forcing it to C helps any:
0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LOCALE=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C LC_ALL=C perl -e 'use
Debconf::ConfModule'
Segmentation fault
139 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> This kind of problem is always a bug in perl, or in an XS module
> loaded into perl. Since debconf contains no XS modules of its own,
> it's almost certianly a perl bug of some variety.
That makes sense. Any thoughts about which package to re-assign this
to? Or other next steps?
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