Your message dated Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:19:06 +0100
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Closing assert() related bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #64669,
regarding dpkg: main/filesdb.c:684: findnamenode_high: Assertion
(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.
to be marked as done.
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.7.2
Severity: normal
Here's the error text and a listing of /var/cache/apt/archives:
(Reading database ... dpkg:
/home/wichert/sources/cvs/debian/x/dpkg-1.7.2/main/filesdb.c:821:
findnamenode_high: Assertion `(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
525 : /root\ > ls /var/cache/apt/archives
apel_10.2+20001228cvs-1_all.deb libtext-querysql-perl_0.07-2_all.deb
gcd_2.95-3_i386.deb lock
grafix-dev_1.6-2_i386.deb partial/
grafix1_1.6-2_i386.deb perl-5.6-base_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb
grip_2.95-3_i386.deb perl-5.6-debug_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb
guile1.4-slib_1%3a1.4-6_i386.deb perl-5.6-doc_5.6.0-6.1_all.deb
guile1.4_1%3a1.4-6_i386.deb perl-5.6-suid_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb
ifupdown_0.6.4-2_i386.deb perl-5.6-thread_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb
libcdb-file-perl_0.83-1_i386.deb perl-5.6_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb
libfreetype6_2.0.1-1_i386.deb quanta_2.0-beta4-1_i386.deb
libgd-perl_1.30-5_i386.deb save/
libguile9-dev_1%3a1.4-6_i386.deb vim-gtk_5.7.019-2_i386.deb
libguile9_1%3a1.4-6_i386.deb vim-rt_5.7.019-2_all.deb
libperl5.6_5.6.0-6.1_i386.deb wordplay_7.22-14_i386.deb
libtext-query-perl_0.07-2_all.deb
And sadly it didn't reoccur the next time. Maybe a local problem. I'll
report it anyway.
Jim
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eeyore 2.4.0-test12pre4-reiserfs-cuecat-ipsec #1 Wed Nov 29
12:53:25 EST 2000 i686
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.2-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.2-20 The GNU stdc++ library
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Hi!
So, I'm not a big fan of closing bugs where it's unknown whether they
have been fixed or not. The problem with this set of reports, is that
they are pretty much unactionable. :/
What I've done in dpkg 1.19.1, has been to change all assert()s from the
dpkg codebase into internerr() calls, which means we should be getting
slightly better diagnostics from now on, if any of this ever happen
again.
So by closing these, I'm hoping to close things that have arleady been
fixed, even if accidentally, *and* to prompt any new occurrence to be
filed again as a new report with the additional information.
Thanks,
Guillem
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