Your message dated Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:32:08 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1126675: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #678927, regarding sks db hangs (needs to be killed) with "unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: sks Version: 1.1.3-1 After an upgrade to 1.1.3, a fully-populated keyserver hung when i searched it for the string "dkg". looking at /var/log/sks/db.log, i see: 2012-06-25 01:12:55 Error fetching uid during VIndex for keyid 0xDB686C92D9D59F61: Bdb.DBError("unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region") the sks db process was hung in a futex() system call (according to strace) and needed to be kill -9'ed to terminate. Following John Clizbe's advice [0], i was able to get the system working and able to respond to searches with: ## ensure sks is stopped cp /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/DB_CONFIG /var/lib/sks/PTree/ cp /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/DB_CONFIG /var/lib/sks/DB/ /etc/init.d/sks start I confess i'm doing this sort of blindly -- i don't know what other consequences may result from this BDB config change. Perhaps if this config change is necessary to avoid a hard hang, it should be done during the postinst script? Thanks for maintaining SKS in debian! Regards, --dkg [0] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2012-06/msg00036.html
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1.1.6+git20210302.c3ba6d5a-4.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package sks has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1126675 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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