Marty wrote:
I reported Bug#301912, consisting of repeated perl warnings and segfaults during package installation.
It turns out to likely be hardware data corruption caused by a new memory module or changed timing. I caught it by the venerable "burnit" kernel compile loop script, aided by distcc to keep cycle times reasonably low. Overnight memtest and debsum loops did not cause a failure, but dpkg was failing about every third run. Sorry about the false alarm. Marty