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and subject line Bug#1014201: fixed in spamprobe 1.4d-19
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regarding spamprobe hangs in libdb; use MySQL instead?
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Package: spamprobe
Version: 1.4d-14+b2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
I posted this upstream at https://sourceforge.net/p/spamprobe/bugs/40/, but as
expected got no reaction there.
Is anyone here maintaining spamprobe anymore, or am I on my own?
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I had used spamprobe for many years without major problems. But recently it
started hanging.
strace shows it blocks on a futex call which is strange enough since it's
single-threaded and no other instances were running at the same time.
Once it happens, it seems to happen every time. Rebuilding the database helped,
but only for a short while. After few days, it would hang again.
gdb shows the offending calls come from some libdb functions. Since I don't
feel like debugging libdb, and you might not either, this got me thinking if
using a file-based DB such as Berkeley is really the best option here.
Using a DB server such as MySQL might, apart from hopefully avoiding such
locking bugs, be better for performance since it doesn't have to load the whole
DB on each invocation, but can cache it if used frequently, as it normally does.
I see a similar request was made recently (well, 17 years ago ;) in
https://sourceforge.net/p/spamprobe/feature-requests/23/ (with yet another
reason), but got no replies.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'),
(500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages spamprobe depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.8
ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 10.2.1-6
ii libgif7 5.1.9-2
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.0.6-4
ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
Versions of packages spamprobe recommends:
ii procmail 3.22-26
spamprobe suggests no packages.
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Source: spamprobe
Source-Version: 1.4d-19
Done: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
spamprobe, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated spamprobe package)
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:33:03 +0200
Source: spamprobe
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4d-19
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Closes: 1014201 1119222
Changes:
spamprobe (1.4d-19) unstable; urgency=medium
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* QA upload.
* Build without Berkeley DB. (Closes: #1014201, #1119222)
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