On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:14:39AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: [...] > > DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86 > > or temporarily adding "set -x" as 2nd line to > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst and running > > "dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86" might show useful information. > > Here is the output > -- Debconf Developer Debug output > > Script started on Wed Mar 24 09:04:39 2004 > duke:~# DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure --debug=3773 xserver-xfree86 [...] > debconf (developer): <-- METAGET shared/default-x-server choices > debconf (developer): --> 0 xserver-xfree86 > dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 > Errors were encountered while processing: > xserver-xfree86
This exit code is certainly due to a SIGSEGV in a subprocess. In order to determine the culprit, please add 'set -x' at line 2 of xserver-xfree86.config (as mentioned earlier by Andreas) and re-run the command above. This should tell which command segfaults. Denis