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--- Begin Message ---Package: menu Version: 2.1.27 Hello, since ages I notice intermittent hangs of update-menu while upgrading packages. Neither is there any connection to special packages where this happens nor did I find any other period or something. I could also not detect any correlation between subsequent failed or succeeded upgrade runs. Sometimes an upgrade following a broken upgrade succeeds, sometimes it fails, sometimes an upgrade following a successful upgrade fails, sometimes it succeeds. That's why I don't belive this has something to do with broken databases or things like that. Whenever update-menus hangs, I see two update-menus processes, one with ppid 1 and the hanging one, where the hanging one sometimes is in zombie state, sometimes it just hangs. I'll attach some ps -ef outputs to show the situations while such hangs. Since everything went well over the winter and I didn't recognize such hangs for a long time I thought the problem went away. However, now in summer the problem appears again. Since my workstation sometimes speeds down when it gets too hot I began thinking about some correlation between speed and update-menu hangs. I tried to cool down my machine a bit and belive it or not - there are less hangs :) Of course, I'm not sure, but these symptoms look like some race condition occuring in update-menus interprocess communication which leads to these intermittent hangs. Here are two different ps -ef outputs from two different hangs in the same upgrade process: root 21062 21175 13 15:51 pts/6 00:00:01 apt-get install --reinstall libgtk2.0-doc root 21073 21062 40 15:51 pts/6 00:00:02 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 29 --unpack /var/cache/apt root 21079 21073 0 15:51 pts/6 00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgtk2.0-doc.prerm upgra root 21081 21079 0 15:51 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/install-docs -r gtk2-tutoria root 21082 21081 2 15:51 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/update-menus root 21083 21082 0 15:51 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/update-menus root 21062 21175 0 15:51 pts/6 00:00:01 apt-get install --reinstall libgtk2.0-doc root 21100 1 0 15:52 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/update-menus root 21109 21062 2 15:52 pts/6 00:00:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 29 --configure libgtk2.0-d root 21110 21109 0 15:52 pts/6 00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgtk2.0-doc.postinst co root 21132 21110 0 15:52 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/install-docs -i /usr/share/d root 21134 21132 0 15:52 pts/6 00:00:00 /usr/bin/update-menus root 21135 21134 0 15:52 pts/6 00:00:00 [update-menus] <defunct> Of course, I don't expect you to be able to locate or even fix this issue based only on my spongy description. However, since I seem to have an enviroment where I can somewhat "reliably" reproduce these hangs, perhaps you have some idea where I could step deeper into the problem. Perhaps you'll even have some debug version that especially debugs update-menus IPCs. Thanks for your work & regards Mario -- As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be. -- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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--- Begin Message ---Source: menu Source-Version: 2.1.33 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of menu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: menu_2.1.33.dsc to pool/main/m/menu/menu_2.1.33.dsc menu_2.1.33.tar.gz to pool/main/m/menu/menu_2.1.33.tar.gz menu_2.1.33_i386.deb to pool/main/m/menu/menu_2.1.33_i386.deb 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. Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated menu package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:20:52 +0100 Source: menu Binary: menu Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.1.33 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: menu - generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications Closes: 374834 399241 402016 Changes: menu (2.1.33) unstable; urgency=low . * The "and justice for all" release. * Apply patch from Tim Dijkstra to simplify wait_dpkg() to not require signal to be sent between the parent and the child to work around a race condition in glibc, probably bug #223110. Closes: #374834. * Menu translations - Portuguese updated by Miguel Figueiredo. Closes: #399241 - Malayalam added by Praveen. Closes: #402016 - Tamil added by Tirumurti Vasudevan. Files: 3872c5f8fecc6539839f4d12ab3939bc 521 admin optional menu_2.1.33.dsc 568337a5cb1c9d6a1224b1020c0c11a9 440041 admin optional menu_2.1.33.tar.gz 8b6861f1aaae46c3d990a842fa2866d6 412948 admin optional menu_2.1.33_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFi+4seDPs8bVESBURAm2fAJ9VhjyS+k2S0ZoZFVoVWm81RVzF+wCaA3/V uDAWpuyYytd49GwgoSCIk6U= =Wywe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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