---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Fri October 20 2006 04:59 From: Lindsay Washusen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:49:38 Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >tags 392570 moreinfo >thanks > >I think it more likely the /var/lib/dpkg/status >or /var/lib/dpkg/available files contain garbage. Could you please >check those files (using more, less, or a text editor) along with can not see any problems with these files> <...> >If the DVD archive and dpkg DB files are OK then try "strace -o >dselect.trace dselect" and send the output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > so we can see where dselect is going bad. Much good idea I will give this a try directly,as I am some what intrigued bye this. I will say I had thought of this but had not done it because from memory this produced a HUGE file and slowed done the system somthing chronic. I will get the src for dselect and have a study to try and see how it works when going through the list. Note: the problem occurs with 2 versions of the "available" file one generated directly from the DVD's and on from converting the the DVD's to a hardidsk based store. The thing that most concerns me is why the corruption or whatever it is causes the system to lockup. Many thanks for the response and suggestions I will give some things a try and get back. Lindsay PS. Just tried to run dselect in a user account to see if the kernels protection mechanism could catch any memory violations. Going through the list as previous works OK HMMMMM. Nothing writen to consol or logs. ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Lindsay Washusen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:08:59 Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> >Do I have your permission to forward this private message to the public >BTS if necessary? Yes >If it turn out to not be reproducible and no similar reports are >received from other users then this bug will be tagged "unreproducible" >and closed about a month after Etch is released. <...> BTW thanks for the insite into the workings of debian bug track. Lindsay the correct email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer accsessed. ------------------------------------------------------- - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
