Your message dated Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:52:19 +0100 with message-id <cadstwj+x9bdz3qyc8uyzsqtsqvx5-hp7ztt777+mwvbat4w...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line re: Errors when dealing with several files in the prerm scripts has caused the Debian Bug report #1007834, regarding Errors when dealing with several files in the prerm scripts to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: python3-lib2to3 Version: 3.9.2-1 Hi there! prerm script doesn't deal correctly with compile and deletion procedure when there are too many files listed. The following error appears when python3-lib2to3 has too many files in the prerm pycache file deletion procedure ('rm -f $files;'). ``` (Reading database ... 65891 files and directories currently installed.) Removing python3-lib2to3 ... dpkg: error processing package python3-lib2to3 (--remove): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: python3-lib2to3 ``` The environment is shown below: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Release: 11 Codename: bullseye $ dpkg -l python3-lib2to3 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig- aWait/Trig-pend > / Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > > / Nome Versão Arquitectura Descrição +++-===============-============-============- ========================================================= rF python3-lib2to3 3.9.2-1 all Interactive high-level object-oriented language (lib2to3) Debugging the procedure the following error was output by rm (with 4673 bytes long input list): ``` Segmentation fault ``` Thus, similarly to [1], I propose the patch (vide [2]) in enumeration and xargs execution at prerm procedure. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/CommonErrorMessages/ArgumentListTooLong [2] https://salsa.debian.org/cpython-team/python3-stdlib/-/merge_requests/1 -- Best Regards, Ibirisol Fontes Ferreira PoP-BA/RNP :: http://www.pop-ba.rnp.br
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--- Begin Message ---2to3 has been removed from Debian your problem looked more like a hardware problem or filesystem corruption. Greetings
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