Control: reassign -1 apt, liblz4-1 Control: severity -1 normal Control: tag -1 unreproducible
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 03:17:02PM +0100, Ara Keary wrote: > Package: apt-file > Version: 3.1.5 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear maintainers, > > installing apt-file and running > > apt-file update > > works well, but any search fails with an error ; for instance > > apt-file search ogg123 > > fails with > > E: LZ4F: > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_Contents-amd64.lz4 > Read error (18446744073709551615: ERROR_GENERIC) > Command xargs -0r /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper cat-file exited with code 123 at > /usr/bin/apt-file line 240. > E: A subprocess exited uncleanly (raw: 31488) It's definitely not an apt-file problem if apt-helper exits. It seems to me that the file is broken. I'd assume your memory or hard disk is failing, or you force rebooted while/after apt(-get) update was running and writing that file and we maybe do not sync it correctly. Or maybe it's a bug in lz4 decompressor - I don't know. In either case, I've not seen this before. You could also try using "lz4cat" from liblz4-tool, that should fail as well. I'd say upload the file, but it's probably about 60-90 MB or so, so probably not really an option. -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev Ubuntu Core Developer de, en speaker
