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package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9 failed to install/upgrade: segementation fault in debconf frontend

Bug #708537 reported by Nick White
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Bug Description

Running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1' after the installation did work fine, and all seems to be working now.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 27 09:46:31 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqld.safe.syslog.cnf:
 [mysqld_safe]
 syslog
MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['ib_logfile0', 'proporta2004_test', 'mysql', 'ibdata1', 'debian-5.1.flag', 'wordpress', 'ib_logfile1', 'mysql_upgrade_info', 'maxwell.pid', 'wikidb']
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.1
Title: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)

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Nick White (r-launchpad-njw-me-uk) wrote :
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

This looks like a installer issue rather than a mysql-server issue:

(from Dmesg.txt)
[ 2768.320060] frontend[8475]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fefbb591237 sp 00007fff6c2f84b0 error 4 in libperl.so.5.10.1[7fefbb4ee000+162000]

(from DpkgTerminalLog)
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9) ...
mysql start/running, process 8620
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x1f0d438, Perl interpreter: 0x19dd010 during global destruction.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x1f0d3c0, Perl interpreter: 0x19dd010 during global destruction.
..... and lots more.....

frontend is part of debconf.

summary: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9 failed to install/upgrade:
- subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal
- (Segmentation fault)
+ segementation fault in debconf frontend
affects: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu) → debconf (Ubuntu)
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

@Nick

I've not been able to reproduce this on a clean server installation for 10.04.1 (amd64); are you running this on a Server install or on a Desktop install?

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Nick White (r-launchpad-njw-me-uk) wrote :

> are you running this on a Server install or on a Desktop install?

Desktop. It's a reasonably fresh install, maybe 3 months old.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it seems that a package failed to install due to a segmentation fault in application being used by the package installation process. Unfortunately, this bug report isn't very useful in its current state and a crash report would be much more useful. Could you try recreating this issue by enabling apport to catch the crash report 'sudo service apport start force_start=1' and then trying to install the same package again? This process will create a new bug report so I am marking this one as Invalid. Thanks again for helping out!

Changed in debconf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
tags: added: package-install-segfault
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Nick White (r-launchpad-njw-me-uk) wrote :

I started apport as Brian suggested, and used apt-get to reinstall the package. However it went perfectly smoothly this time; no errors or segfaults. So let's just put this down to chance ;)

Thanks for your responses and patience.

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