Bug#442189: (infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition)

2009-01-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Vincent McIntyre wrote: I also would be glad if you can check latest apt (0.7.18) whether it has this bug or not. I'll try to look at this in the coming weeks. Do you mean me to try a backport of this version or just try on a system running lenny? Don't matters for me. I'd suggest to set

Bug#442189: (infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition)

2009-01-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Vincent McIntyre wrote: [snip] Possibly the problem is that we aren't using pdiffs in our repo? On the test machine /etc/apt/apt.conf has them turned off - Acquire { Pdiffsfalse; }; so I'm at a bit of a loss why apt would even ask for a Packages.decomp. Or maybe

Bug#442189: (infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition)

2009-01-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I forgot to list the other stuck processes: # ps -fade|grep apt root 18380 18327 0 Nov14 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/apt-get update root 18382 18380 0 Nov14 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 18384 18380 0 Nov14 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv root

Bug#442189: (infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition)

2009-01-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
(For the bug report - I sent this to Eugene on 23rd December) Hi Eugene, thanks for your interest. can you also show strace output of gpgv and gzip processes when apt goes to infinite loop? they both seem to be stuck doing nothing... # ps -fade|grep gpgv root 18384 18380 0 Nov14 ?

Bug#442189: infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition

2007-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I could not see an existing report of this problem, e.g. I don't think this is #409336. Background -- I have a nightly cron job that installs security updates only, using a short