applying updates to system

Bug #137876 reported by Paul Horne
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
debconf (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debconf

I am unable to complete system updates.
I have about 128 to go.
I noticed kdm update is listed as BROKEN.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 5 16:08:34 2007
Disassembly: 0xfe5b8510:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: debconf 1.5.14
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
ProcCwd: /home/paul
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: debconf
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
Title: dpkg-preconfigure crashed with SIGSEGV in abort()
Uname: Linux paul-desktop 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

Tags: apport-crash
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Paul Horne (paulfhorne) wrote :
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Paul Horne (paulfhorne) wrote :

actually checking again:
215 packages to update and it's Amarok that's listed as broken.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta or later?

Changed in debconf:
status: New → Incomplete
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in debconf:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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