mgetty crashes on startup

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(gdb) run
Starting program: /sbin/mgetty 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400709d3 in _IO_vfprintf (s=0x0, format=0x8054def "\n--", ap=0xbfffe968)
    at vfprintf.c:271
271	vfprintf.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x400709d3 in _IO_vfprintf (s=0x0, format=0x8054def "\n--",
ap=0xbfffe968)
    at vfprintf.c:271
#1  0x40079ed7 in fprintf (stream=0x0, format=0x8054def "\n--") at
fprintf.c:32
#2  0x804b468 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31
#3  0x804a0ff in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31
#4  0x4003b345 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804a010 <strcpy+1264>, argc=1, 
    ubp_av=0xbffffa84, init=0x8049460, fini=0x80543fc <strcpy+43228>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000de14 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffa7c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:111
(gdb)