That's a bit different story (or a different part of the same story perhaps) than the Debian bug report, where pike -x dump seems to die from an uncaught SIGALRM.
Re: Bug#593436: Acknowledgement (pike7.8-core: post-installation fails on Geode system, can't reproduce on a different system though)
Magnus Holmgren, Millnet/Lysator/Debian/Mensa @ Pike developers forum Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:55:12 -0700
