----- Forwarded message from cwillu <[email protected]> ----- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:38:49 -0600 From: cwillu <[email protected]> To: Joey Hess <[email protected]> Subject: Re: btrfs issues
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Joey Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > cwillu wrote: >> New information on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575891 >> >> Turns out to have been an unsafe assumption on dpkg's part with >> apparently astronomic odds of being triggered on most filesystems. >> >> Putting /var/lib/dpkg on an ext3 mount (I used a bind mount from my >> /boot) works around it until the problem can be fixed in dpkg. > > Cwillu, thanks for following up. > > That does seem to explain #569058, closing that bug. > > At the moment, my other two problems, #567135 and #568908, do not > seem likely to be caused by the dpkg bug. #567135 is definitely caused by triggers and postinst scripts going missing from /var/lib/dpkg/info, that's the behaviour that got me looking at dpkg in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if #568908 also had similar roots. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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