Your message dated Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:53:38 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: aptitude: Bus error on sparc if a package on cmdline does not exist has caused the Debian Bug report #405907, regarding aptitude: Bus error on sparc if a package on cmdline does not exist to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: normal Installing packages on the cmdline fails with a buserror when one of the provided packages does not exist. penrose:/var/lib/apt/lists# aptitude install xterm not_exists Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Bus error Strace doesn't reveal anything useful -- it just sits there waiting for a read on a pipe. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-sparc64 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3. 0.6.46.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.6.8.4-1 Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > (Axel: adding you explicitly because you have sparc machines around > still in good working order and on-line, IIRC). Indeed. # uname -a Linux hw 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 24 00:00:54 UTC 2013 sparc64 GNU/Linux > Can somebody please confirm if this still happens in more recent versions? Can't reproduce it out of the box: # aptitude install xterm not_exists Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "not_exists" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "not_exists" The following partially installed packages will be configured: […] Since the original bug-report had the line "Building tag database... Done" as last output before the crash, I also did a second try with debtags being installed: # aptitude install xterm not_exists Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "not_exists" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "not_exists" The following partially installed packages will be configured: […] Still no crash. > It's 7 years later, I think that such a basic problem must have been > fixed in the meantime, in one way or another. > > Please close it if you cannot reproduce it. Looks fine. Closing. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
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