Package: perl-base Version: 5.18.2-4+b1 Severity: grave On s390x perl fails to run debconf and segfaults later on:
| $ gdb --args perl /usr/share/debconf/frontend | GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.2 (Debian 7.6.2-1.1) | Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" | and "show warranty" for details. | This GDB was configured as "s390x-linux-gnu". | For bug reporting instructions, please see: | <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... | Reading symbols from /usr/bin/perl...(no debugging symbols found)...done. | (gdb) run | Starting program: /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/debconf/frontend | warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso64.so.1. | Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"? | [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] | Using host libthread_db library "/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". | debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in string eq at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 17. | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 60. | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 61. | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 62. | Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 72. | Use of uninitialized value $r in <HANDLE> at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 72. | readline() on unopened filehandle at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 72. | | Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. | 0x000003fffded8838 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 | (gdb) bt | #0 0x000003fffded8838 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 | #1 0x000003fffdeceba0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 | #2 0x000003fffded8f60 in Perl_sv_clean_objs () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 | #3 0x000003fffde45634 in perl_destruct () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 | #4 0x0000000080000f30 in main () | (gdb) This breaks installation of glibc binary packages like tzdata. As there are no debugging infos available, no further information can be shown. Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
