Bug#478409: problem with SEGV still persists

[Simon]

I have an in-progress Etch->Lenny upgrade going and the problem still 
persists with the perl segfaults. I would consider this to be grave 
since debconf cannot run properly, and makes most of the configuration 
of packages useless and very broken.

I've been trying to work around it since early this morning $localtime 
(7:30 EST, n. america, it is now almost 18:00), and no matter what I 
do, it crashes. The perl* version I have is 5.10.0-19, the latest as of 
this writing.  Still seems to have odd crashes, "undefined symbol" 
errors, Perl_pv_something in Fnctl/Fnctl.so and other compiled modules. 
Also, the libperl5.10 package seems to be empty? Is that normal?

simon