Bug#592768: clisp segfaults on install on powerpc system.

[Len Sorensen]

Package: clisp
Version: 1:2.48-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

In trying to dist-upgrade today, I got a segfault in clisp.

Setting up clisp (1:2.48-3) ...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Installing clc...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
;; Loading file /usr/lib/clisp-2.48/install-clc.lisp ...                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
;;  Loading file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.lisp ...                                                                                                                                                                          
;;  Loaded file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.lisp                                                                                                                                                                               
*** - handle_fault error2 ! address = 0x77946b98 not in [0x69a5a0d8,0x69b37000) !                                                                                                                                                                                              
SIGSEGV cannot be cured. Fault address = 0x77946b98.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
GC count: 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Space collected by GC: 0 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Run time: 0 34497                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Real time: 0 610829                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
GC time: 0 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Permanently allocated: 108736 bytes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Currently in use: 3721192 bytes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Free space: 198 bytes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Segmentation fault                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Building of new image failed!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
dpkg: error processing clisp (--configure):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4                                                                                                                                                                                                    
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xindy:                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 xindy depends on clisp-fasl-loader-20080430; however:                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
  Package clisp-fasl-loader-20080430 is not installed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
  Package clisp which provides clisp-fasl-loader-20080430 is not configured yet.                                                                                                                                                                                               
dpkg: error processing xindy (--configure):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Errors were encountered while processing:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 clisp                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 xindy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea?  I tried purging clisp and installing it again, same result.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages clisp depends on:
ii  common-lisp-controlle 7.3                Common Lisp source and compiler ma
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8              4.8.26-1           Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libffcall1            1.10+cvs20100619-2 Foreign Function Call Libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.7+20100313-2     shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5          5.2-7              GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsigsegv0           2.5-3              Library for handling page faults i
ii  libx11-6              2:1.3.3-3          X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6               1:1.0.6-1          X11 authorisation library
ii  libxext6              2:1.1.2-1          X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxpm4               1:3.5.8-1          X11 pixmap library

clisp recommends no packages.

Versions of packages clisp suggests:
pn  clisp-dev                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  clisp-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gdb                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  slime                         <none>     (no description available)

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