Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> this sounds as if it could be related to a obscure problem ive been
> observing in apt-get since 2.4.17 (more so with the Dec 23 cvs patch,
> and less so with both split patches).
>
> apt-get starts segfaulting on all operations when it reads
> /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and cannot be used until this file is
> removed and apt-get update is rerun, then it will function properly,
> until it happens all over again.
>
> someone i was talking to recently has been using the 2.4.17 xfs
> patches with 2.4.18pre kernels and found apt-get failed due to errors
> returned by msync() (which appears to be returning 1 (not -1)).
> msync is involved in writing these apt binary cache files.
>
> i have also had apt function fine for some time, then all of the
> sudden start segfaulting, even when no operation which rewrites the
> cache file was run for quite some time, this seems quite consistent
> with the above description. i haven't reported this yet since its
> been so inconclusive and difficult to reproduce as to not be a very
> helpful bug report.
Happens for me, too. Begun when I first updated to 2.4.17-xfs from
2.4.16-xfs. I have not reported this either, because I can't reproduce
it reliably.
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Arto Jantunen
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