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

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@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']