On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:00:05PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Your diff shows that you have defeated the error reporting mechanism, you
> need to drop the return statement you added to have it work properly.
Sorry, I didn't grasp that I was "defeating" it.
> Once you know what your particular error is then you can try to fix that.
> Since you say it runs OK as a normal user it sounds like something bad has
> happened to your cache files in /var/cache/apt/*.bin and erasing them will
> surely make it run again.
Nothing bad had happened to them:
zuul:/tmp/branden/apt-0.5.4# LD_LIBARY_PATH=/tmp/branden/apt-0.5.4/build/bin gdb /tmp/branden/apt-0.5.4/build/bin/apt-cache
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...
(gdb) set args show autoconf
(gdb) break apt-cache.cc:1388
Breakpoint 1 at 0x805316c: file apt-cache.cc, line 1388.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/branden/apt-0.5.4/build/bin/apt-cache show autoconf
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=3, argv=0xbffffd24) at apt-cache.cc:1388
1388 delete Map;
(gdb) next
1392 if (_error->empty() == false)
(gdb)
1394 bool Errors = _error->PendingError();
(gdb)
85 inline bool PendingError() {return PendingFlag;};
(gdb)
1395 _error->DumpErrors();
(gdb)
E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device)
1396 return Errors == true?100:0;
(gdb)
0x080534d5 1400 }
(gdb)
0x4017c0bf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Single stepping until exit from function __libc_start_main,
which has no line number information.
Program exited with code 0144.
(gdb) quit
zuul:/tmp/branden/apt-0.5.4# df -h /var
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1012M 1012M 0 100% /var
What business does apt-cache have trying to rebuild the cache if I run it
as root? All I did was ask it to read something.
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