[Bug 1442064] Re: /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault (arm64)

[Bob stoutenburgh]

Made multiple correction attempts based on other reports.  Cannot
replace dpkg or clear fault.  Spamassassin (in our case) will not
install.  Expect many other have this problem but do not know it yet

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Title:
  /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault (arm64)

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I did a fresh install of a trusty cloud image to an applied micro
  X-Gene today and post the installation (and login) I did:

   apt-get update
   apt-get dist-upgrade

  and noticed the following:

  ubuntu at linaro-test:devstack$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    acl cpu-checker fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core
    hicolor-icon-theme ipxe-qemu libaio1 libasound2 libasound2-data libasyncns0
    libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libblas3 libbluetooth3 libbrlapi0.6 libcaca0
    libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfdt1
    libflac8 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa
    libgraphite2-3 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libharfbuzz0b
    libjasper1 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libjs-jquery libjs-underscore
    liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblua5.2-0 libogg0 libpango-1.0-0
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpulse0
    libsdl1.2debian libsndfile1 libsubunit-perl libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5
    libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libusbredirparser1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libx11-xcb1
    libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-render0
    libxcb-shm0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3
    libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1
    python-cairo python-extras python-fixtures python-gobject-2 python-mimeparse
    python-testtools qemu-system-common
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    python-gobject-2
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/145 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 885 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
  (Reading database ... 54957 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../python-gobject-2_2.28.6-12build1_arm64.deb ...
  Unpacking python-gobject-2 (2.28.6-12build1) over (2.28.6-12build1) ...
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.7
  Uname: Linux 3.19.3 aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: arm64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Thu Apr  9 10:16:06 2015
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.update.motd.d.91.release.upgrade: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade']

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