Package: perl Version: 5.8.7-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
When upgrading Perl this happens: Setting up uptimed (0.3.3-7) ... Starting uptime daemon: uptimed. *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778b8 *** dpkg: error processing uptimed (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up libslp1 (1.2.1-2) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778b8 *** dpkg: error processing libslp1 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up clamav-getfiles (0.5-1) ... EICAR Anti-Virus Test File downloaded and installed. *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing clamav-getfiles (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up debsums (2.0.18) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778b8 *** dpkg: error processing debsums (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up ntp (4.2.0a+stable-2) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing ntp (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up spamassassin (3.0.4-2) ... SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing spamassassin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up apache-common (1.3.33-7) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing apache-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up exim4-base (4.52-1) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) Setting up courier-base (0.47-8) ... *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x007778c0 *** dpkg: error processing courier-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of courier-authdaemon: courier-authdaemon depends on courier-base (>= 0.47); however: Package courier-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing courier-authdaemon (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4-daemon-heavy depends on exim4-base (>= 4.52); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ntp-server: ntp-server depends on ntp; however: Package ntp is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ntp-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx: mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of courier-imap: courier-imap depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. courier-imap depends on courier-base (>= 0.47); however: Package courier-base is not configured yet. With an older version, there's no glibc problem with perl. Regards Ingo -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-sparc64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.8.7-3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.8.7-3 Core Perl modules Versions of packages perl recommends: pn perl-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]