Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Frans Pop debian-devel, Thanks! David Kalnischkies and I were able to reproduce a crash for sources that had no Packages file. This is fixed with the 0.7.23.1 For anybody further interested in the bug: Something like a index-out-of-bounce, but libapt didn't access the end (this was

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:34, Frans Popelen...@planet.nl wrote: Michael Vogt wrote: It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order the

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
I looked in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz first, but I could not find it there. Should it be added? Yes, it should be. A few others seems to be missing also... Will be added in the next upload round. The description is far from being perfect and a few things are missing so

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: Would the following also work to use an *un*compressed packages file: Acquire::CompressionTypes:: ; A quick test suggest that this would work as a hack, but apt doesn't like uncompressed files and will print many false-negative Ignore

APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: $ apt-get update ... 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) WARNING to everyone. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x7fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string,

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: $ apt-get update .. 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) WARNING to everyone. Thanks for your warning. Program

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the architecture you are using? amd64, sources.list attached, but some of the repositories are local on my disc. I checked that

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Vogt wrote: It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order the compression types should be used. That last is really excellent news! I have some slow systems where using gzip will be *much*

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the architecture you are using? amd64, sources.list attached,