Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-31 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Looking at URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, I

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Looking at URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, I

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. This would also rule out a temporary bug in popcon (in that case, it would have been a peak which would subside over time). Instead, my guess is that there are corner-case situations in which popcon tries to

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Another possibility might be a group of people having popcon and something like cron-apt installed at the same time; if both cronjobs trigger at approximately the same time, that would greatly increase the

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Russ Allbery] It's not *impossible*... someone could be running the scripts from the package without having the package installed. I don't know why they'd do that, though, or whether that's a more plausible explanation

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] It's not *impossible*... someone could be running the scripts from the package without having the package installed. I don't know why they'd do that, though, or whether that's a more plausible explanation than a corrupt database. Sure, it is possible for people to run the

re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-23 Thread peter green
I suspect this mean that 0.25% (1 of 400) of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org got a corrupt/inconsitent dpkg database. Afaict dpkg has no mechanism in place for detecting or recovering from database curruption. The format of the datbase means that curruption tends to lead to dpkg

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, I suspect this mean that