Segfaults in weird places after aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on clean alternate gutsy install

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 02:43 +0100, Gerald Dachs wrote:
> Am Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:25:29 -0500
> schrieb Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:
> > So,  I tried just 'perl -V'  and guess what - it segfaults!
> 
> Do you have strace on your machine? The output of strace "perl -v"
> would be interesting.

(transcribed by hand - so typos possible)

execve("/usr/bin/perl",["perl","-V"], [/* 17 vars */]) = -1 EFAULT (Bad
address)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Process 6557 detached


Now what does that tell us?

Brian