Re: I need a patch to make XFS work with debian apt

[Wessel Dankers <wsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-02-12 08:44:32-0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mario -
> >
> > I have never heard of XFS causing problems with apt.  Can you run your apt
> > command through strace to see
> 
> Whoops.. :)
> 
> ... to see why it's failing?  Are you certain that it's only failing with
> the XFS kernel?

Apt uses db files and there was a problem with mmap() some time ago which
affected these files. Lucky for Mario these files are merely caches of
other files. Perhaps you should back them up first to be sure, but:

        rm /var/cache/apt/*pkgcache.bin

should do it.

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