Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > Would the following also work to use an *un*compressed packages file: > > Acquire::CompressionTypes::"" ""; > > A quick test suggest that this would work as a hack, but apt doesn't > like uncompressed files and will print many false-negative

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
> I looked in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz first, but I > could not find it there. Should it be added? Yes, it should be. A few others seems to be missing also... Will be added in the next upload round. >> The description is far from being perfect and a few things are missing >>

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:34, Frans Pop wrote: > > Michael Vogt wrote: > >> It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma > >> support for Package file downloads and the option to configure in > >> what order the compression t

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Frans Pop & debian-devel, > Thanks! David Kalnischkies and I were able to reproduce a crash for > sources that had no Packages file. This is fixed with the 0.7.23.1 For anybody further interested in the bug: Something like a index-out-of-bounce, but libapt didn't access the end (this was checke

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: > > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this > > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the > > architecture you are using? > > amd64, sources.list att

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Vogt wrote: > It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support > for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order > the compression types should be used. That last is really excellent news! I have some slow systems where using gzip will be *much* f

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the > architecture you are using? amd64, sources.list attached, but some of the repositories are local on my disc. I checked that down

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: > $ apt-get update > .. > 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for > headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > WARNING to everyone. Thanks for your warning. > Program

APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: $ apt-get update ... 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) WARNING to everyone. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x7fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string, pkg