On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Hirling Endre wrote: > Apt >=0.3.13 fails with "Bad file descriptor" on SMP machines. It > seems like a race condition somewhere because the problem > disappears if I try to trace it with strace or use it on a loaded > system. 0.3.10slink11 works OK. I don't have versions between the > two to test with.
APT is not a multi-threaded program, it is [very] unlikely to a have a race condition with that sort of error. It rather smells like a kernel problem - particularly since 0.3.10slink works. Can you show me a screen dump of it failing at least? Jason
