Bug#860908: perl 5.24 segfaults during a dpkg -i of cmanager (and other packages)

[Brad Barnett]

Please close this bug.

This box has been in service for a long time, with zero issues.

After a fresh install of stretch, this issue with perl exhibited itself.

After, all seemed quite well.  However, a week later?  SSH connections
started dropping with checksum errors.

A memtest86+ run, of 2 *days* finally showed RAM errors.  It wasn't until
the 10th or 12th run through, that they appeared.

This box had an uptime of -- well, a year prior to this upgrade.  It
seemed fine, and was a stable runner.  The bad memory was very specific
to a small part of one DIMM, so I can only assume that luck resulted in
that memspace not being used for anything I noticed.  

Sorry for the issue guys, very sorry to waste your time.

And thanks for the help.



On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:00:25 -0400
Brad Barnett <debian-bugs at L8R.net> wrote:

> 
> 
>  
> > Can you reproduce the segfault reliably by running:
> > 
> >  "deb-systemd-helper unmask cgmanager.service >/dev/null"
> > 
> > With Perl 5.24?
> > 
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> root at newoldbe:/var/cache/apt/archives# deb-systemd-helper unmask
> cgmanager.service >/dev/null /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called
> from dpkg. Exiting.
> 
> No segfault.
> 
> ....
> 
> Now that my system is working, I just completed the apt-get -f, made
> sure sysvinit was installed, removed systemd, purged it and such.
> 
> I then did a purge of cgmanager and others (they were pulled in for some
> reason with sysvinit), and tried a fresh install.  It's fine.
> 
> deb-systemd-helper still says the same as the above, with no segfault.
> 
>