Re: Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

Dear Simon et al., thank you very much for your answers! Do you have GLib 2.25.12-1 from experimental, which is known to be crashy ()? Yes, you are exactly right. I forgot to mention in my first post that the package mixture on my syst

Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2010 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Hi, > > since yesterday I get a series of segmentation faults on my system > which makes it impossible to install or upgrade packages or even start > X. The system is inside a virtualbox so I don't think that hardware > errors are the cause.

Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 at 17:18:05 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > In the "Name: debconf/frontend" section of > /usr/cache/debconf/config.dat I manually changed the "Value: Gnome" > field to "Readline" and now I can run "apt-get -f install" and > finally have my system back in a usable state. Do you

Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

Found a workaround: In the "Name: debconf/frontend" section of /usr/cache/debconf/config.dat I manually changed the "Value: Gnome" field to "Readline" and now I can run "apt-get -f install" and finally have my system back in a usable state. Sorry for the noise, - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

More information on this issue: The segfault in /u/s/debconf/frontend occurs as soon as the command mx $frontend=make_frontend(); in line 14 is executed. I found this out by cutting off the tail of this file from line 15 on and running it via 'perl -w'. If I cut off from line 13 on the script

Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

I think you want reportbug here. Except for the fact that reportbug dies with a segmentation fault. :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5977e6.2030.

Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

On 04/08/2010 11:54, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Unfortunately, a reboot did not help to fix the issue on my system. I am > running a testing/unstable mixture, by the way. I think you want reportbug here. -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

Am 04.08.2010 11:30, schrieb b...@bc-bd.org: I have seen something similar on my NC10 running testing (native, no virtualization) after hibernating/resuming it. A reboot fixed that. Also, that problem fixed itself before I could get a clue on what was causing it. Unfortunately, a reboot did not