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Subject: dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Aborted)
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Package: tar
Version: 1.13.93-4
Severity: normal


Hi!

Sorry, I see now that I should've reported this sooner before
tar in Sarge was frozen, but I still don't know if its something
wrong with my system or tar.  Here goes...

We're running a very small old (PII-300MHz!) server that has been
the same system since two Debian releases ago, not counting Sarge
that we run now.

Personally I run Sarge on four other systems as well and have not
encountered this on any of them -- however, neither of them have
been upgraded release by release, they have been reinstalled.

Briefly, tar dies on SIGABORT (SIGABRT) when dpkg (run as root)
tries to unpack the control files of a package.  When run as a
regular user (with sudo) everything is fine and when I symlink
/bin/tar to star and run as root evrything also works.  So I
conclude that there must be:
        a) something wrong with my system, or
        b) something wrong with tar.

Please advice on what I can do to track this down.  It's really
driving me off the nearest cliff.  Below is the long version
of a sample run. (Capital letters not used for screaming.)

Regards
 /Jocke

##### TRYING TO INSTALL ANY PACKAGE AS ROOT FAILS #####
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install rar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/246kB of archives.
After unpacking 429kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Aborted)
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rar_3.30-2_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/rar_3.30-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

##### REPLACE TAR WITH STAR #####
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /bin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# mv tar tar.old
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# ln -s star tar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# cd

##### ET VOILA #####
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install rar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/246kB of archives.
After unpacking 429kB of additional disk space will be used.
tar: current './' newer.
tar: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).
Selecting previously deselected package rar.
(Reading database ... 129265 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rar (from .../archives/rar_3.30-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up rar (3.30-2) ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# 

##### RESTORE REGULAR TAR #####
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /bin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# rm tar
rm: remove symbolic link `tar'? y
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# mv tar.old tar

##### INSTALL AS REGULAR USER WITH SUDO, WEIRD! #####
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin# logout
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install rar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/246kB of archives.
After unpacking 429kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package rar.
(Reading database ... 129265 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rar (from .../archives/rar_3.30-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up rar (3.30-2) ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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Subject: Re: Bug#277906: tar bug
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On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:00 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I was wondering if root has MALLOC_CHECK_ set in the environment,
> which would explain why tar aborts.

Yes, you were right, thanks!

Regards
 /Jocke



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