[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#559793: libnss-mdns.postinst sefaults on line 17, in a perl function

[Glen]

Package: libnss-mdns
Version: 1.10-3

Hi everyone, I am completely stumped on this one. I'm in the console,
attempting to apt-get install libnss-mdns, but during the configuration in
dpkg, I get an error reading something like this:

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Setting up libnss-mdns (0.10-3) ...
First installation detected...
Checking NSS setup...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libnss-mdns.postinst: line 17: 16703 Segmentation
fault      perl -i -pe '
        sub insert {
            # this also splits on tab
            my @bits=split(" ", shift);
            # do not break configuration if the "hosts" line already
references
            # mdns
            if (grep { $_ eq "mdns4_minimal" || $_ eq "mdns4"
                || $_ eq "mdns" || $_ eq "mdns_minimal"
                || $_ eq "mdns6" || $_ eq "mdns6_minimal"} @bits) {
                return join " ", @bits;
            }
            # change "dns" into "mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4"
            return join " ", map {
                $_ eq "dns" ?
("mdns4_minimal","[NOTFOUND=return]",$_,"mdns4") : $_
            } @bits;
        }
        s/^(hosts:\s+)(.*)/$1.insert($2)/e;
    ' /etc/nsswitch.conf
dpkg: error processing libnss-mdns (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libnss-mdns
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uname -a: Linux 2.6.22.5 #1 SMP Sat Dec 29 22:40:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

If you want my opinion on the solution here, I think it may have something
to do with a bug in perl, but I'm not honestly sure. I noticed that right
after getting the segfault, binaries no longer work. I.E. trying to run DPKG
will get a segfault right away, ls will get a segfault, everything will.
That is, until I copy over the files in the libc6 package onto my HD. For
some reason, something in libc6 gets tampered with, stopping all binaries
from running till I restore libc6 by copying over its files.


Thank you for helping!
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