Bug#760935: perl: Crashing bug on trivial programs

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:02:19AM +0200, Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.20.0-6
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> I have encountered a critical issue with both 5.20.0-6 and 5.20.1~rc2-1 versions
> of perl.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
>     09/09 10:29 ~/projects/integration_oed % perl -e 'use File::Find;'
>     zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e 'use File::Find;'
> 
> As git-svn crashes systematically with an error code 139, git add -p is out of
> commission and apt-file crashes as well, I suspect this issue affects a lot more
> packages (which is also why I set the priority to 'grave').

Hi, that certainly doesn't crash here. This is most probably a local
issue. If the perl package was this broken for everyone on amd64, I
expect we'd have a lot more reports.  As it is, 5.20.0-6 has been in
sid for ten days and just migrated to testing.

I suggest running a memory check (maybe memtest86) on the system first.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org