Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Cooper
package approx tag 616529 + unreproducible thanks On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: I did several runs of apt-get update (or in my case aptitude -u) and tried to get new files, but approx always returned the version of February 22nd. This may be due to the

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-07 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello Eric, On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: Running approx-update --verbose also seems to have a problem, since it doesn't update sid/main/binary-amd64/* any more since February 22nd: [...] This is neither logger or reported by the daily cron job, so errors

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-05 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Package: approx Version: 4.5-1 Severity: important approx-gc is run from cron and gets into an endless loop burning CPU time and - more important - IO operations: # ps www 5030 5030 ?RN 133:10 /usr/sbin/approx-gc --quiet Runnings strace on the process I can see, that it

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-05 Thread Eric Cooper
approx-gc is run from cron and gets into an endless loop burning CPU time and - more important - IO operations: # ps www 5030 5030 ?RN 133:10 /usr/sbin/approx-gc --quiet Runnings strace on the process I can see, that it repeatedly visits the same directories again