[Debconf-devel] Bug#443753: Bug#443753: /usr/share/debconf/frontend segfaults

[Joey Hess]

Ionut Ciocirlan wrote:
> It doesn't crash kde. /usr/share/debconf/frontend simply segfaults if
> the frontend is set to Kde, regardless of it being run with or without
> an existing DISPLAY. (yes, root does usually have access to it, but
> anyway when it doesn't frontend used to fallback and warn about it)
> 
> Couldn't pinpoint exactly when it started happening, but it was when
> upgrading to libc6-2.6.1-3, so it must roughly coincide with the
> upload of that (see #441975)... Back then i pinned libc6 to 2.6.1-2
> and didn't care much about it.. only now that it badly broke x.org
> upgrade i looked into it and accidentally found out that changing the
> frontend fixed it.

The original bug report about this mentioned libc6-i686. Do you
reproduce the problem if that package is removed and you then run
dpkg-reconfigure debconf -fkde ?

-- 
see shy jo
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