Niels Thykier: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.74 > Severity: important > > Seen twice on lindsay.d.o in the last 24 hours. The exact reason is > unknown, but it is probably during the unpacker (last non-error in the > log is lintian starting the unpack, plus previously we had a race-condition > in the unpacker that could trigger a similar fork-bomp situation). > > Most likely we never fixed this condition and only made it > "sufficiently unlikely" until gcc-8-cross-ports showed up. > > > For now, I have disabled the crontab on lindsay.d.o to avoid it taking > down our host. > > Thanks, > ~Niels >
Btw, I got an old prototype rewrite where the custom parallelization handling is replaced by IO::Async in https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/nthykier/lintian.git/log/?h=unpacker-io-async No clue if this handles this particular problem, but I wanted to mentioned it in case someone else got the same idea of rewriting things to use IO::Async. Thanks, ~Niels
