On Mon 2008-04-28 22:11:38 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > What happens if you dpkg --configure locales ? Does the problem then > stop happening? 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.
A bit more debugging around locales (still no joy):
My local console ("squeak") uses en_US.UTF-8, but the system that's
having trouble ("clam") was set to en_US.ISO-8859-1. Since i was
doing the upgrade via ssh, i thought there might be some weird
interaction between my local unicode terminal emulator and the remote
iso-8859-1 ssh session. So to try to re-align them, i:
* switched clam back to etch, and force-downgraded by pinning etch to
priority 1001 in /etc/apt/preferences
* ran dpkg-reconfigure locales on clam, switched clam to en_US.UTF-8
for the default, and opted to not even generate en_US.ISO-8859-1
* logged out of clam, and then back in (dunno if this was necessary
to clean up the locale situation for the shell).
* removed /etc/apt/preferences, switched sources.list to use lenny
instead of etch
* ran aptitude dist-upgrade, which had the same problematic result.
I did manage to capture a transcript of the failed dist-upgrade,
though, which i've included below.
So now i'm back in the same boat as before, where the segfault bites
me even as a non-root user:
0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'use Debconf::ConfModule'
Segmentation fault
139 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Anyway, i think this rules out a locale interaction between my
terminal emulator and the remote shell as the source of the problem.
Is it obvious yet that i don't understand locales very well? ;)
--dkg
0 clam:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
libflac7 liboggflac3
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
bsd-mailx cpp-4.2 dbus dbus-x11 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base libasyncns0
libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavc1394-0
libcwidget3 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdbus-1-3 libdevmapper1.02.1 libept0
libexpat1 libfaad0 libflac8 libfreebob0 libgnutls26 libgssglue1 libice6
libiec61883-0 libjack0 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libopencdk10
libpulse0 libraw1394-8 libsamplerate0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data
libxapian15 libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxml2 linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc
sgml-base x11-common xml-core
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
libgssapi2 modutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx cpp-4.2 dbus dbus-x11 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base libasyncns0
libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavc1394-0
libcwidget3 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdbus-1-3 libdevmapper1.02.1 libept0
libexpat1 libfaad0 libflac8 libfreebob0 libgnutls26 libgssglue1 libice6
libiec61883-0 libjack0 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libopencdk10
libpulse0 libraw1394-8 libsamplerate0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data
libxapian15 libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxml2 linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc
sgml-base x11-common xml-core
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgssapi2 lvm-common modutils
The following packages will be upgraded:
adduser alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-common alsaplayer-text apt apt-utils
aptitude at base-files base-passwd bash binutils bsdmainutils bsdutils
busybox bzip2 ca-certificates console-common console-data console-tools
coreutils cpio cpp cpp-4.1 cron dash debconf debconf-i18n
debian-archive-keyring debianutils dialog dictionaries-common diff
dmsetup dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs eject emacs21-bin-common
emacs21-common emacs21-el emacs21-nox exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
exim4-daemon-light file findutils gcc-4.1-base gettext-base gnupg gpgv
grep groff-base gzip hostname iamerican ibritish initramfs-tools
initscripts iproute iptables iputils-ping ispell klibc-utils
laptop-detect less libacl1 libao2 libasound2 libatm1 libattr1
libaudiofile0 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcomerr2 libconsole libdb4.2
libdb4.3 libdb4.4 libedit2 libevent1 libgc1c2 libgcc1 libgcrypt11
libglib2.0-0 libgnutls13 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1 libidn11 libklibc
libkrb53 libldap2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 libmad0 libmagic1
libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libnfsidmap2 libogg0 libpam-modules
libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libreadline5 librpcsecgss3
libsasl2-2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libshout3 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2
libsndfile1 libss2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3
libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl
libtheora0 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libvolume-id0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
libvorbisfile3 libwrap0 linux-image-2.6-powerpc locales login lsb-base
lsof lvm2 mac-fdisk mailx makedev man-db manpages menu mime-support
mktemp mkvmlinuz module-init-tools mount mpd mtr-tiny mutt nano
ncurses-base ncurses-bin net-tools netbase nfs-common ntp ntpdate
openssh-client openssh-server openssl passwd perl perl-base perl-modules
portmap powerpc-utils ppp procps psmisc python python-central
python-minimal python2.4 python2.4-minimal readline-common reportbug
runit runit-services screen sed smartmontools socklog strace sysv-rc
sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tasksel tasksel-data tcpd ucf udev
update-inetd util-linux w3m wamerican wget whiptail whois zlib1g
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
aptitude-doc-cs aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc-fi aptitude-doc-fr
aptitude-doc-ja bash-completion fgetty ipsvd libfribidi0 libglib2.0-data
libparse-debianchangelog-perl libpng12-0 libsasl2-modules perl-doc
socklog-run uuid-runtime wbritish xauth
204 packages upgraded, 44 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/130MB of archives. After unpacking 99.5MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 17824 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.8.8-7etch3 (using
.../perl-modules_5.8.8-12_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-modules ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdb4.6.
Unpacking libdb4.6 (from .../libdb4.6_4.6.21-6_powerpc.deb) ...
Preparing to replace perl 5.8.8-7etch3 (using .../perl_5.8.8-12_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl ...
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 (using
.../locales_2.7-10_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 (using
.../libc6_2.7-10_powerpc.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-10_powerpc.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-10_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb4.6:
libdb4.6 depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5.
dpkg: error processing libdb4.6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl:
perl depends on perl-base (= 5.8.8-12); however:
Version of perl-base on system is 5.8.8-7etch3.
perl depends on libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5.
perl depends on libdb4.6; however:
Package libdb4.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-modules:
perl-modules depends on perl (>= 5.8.8-8); however:
Package perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-modules (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
libdb4.6
perl
perl-modules
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