reassign 452664 cowdancer thanks On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:27:35PM +0000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Pierre! > > You wrote: > > > > When I tried to upgrade my cowbuilder environment (i386 env on amd64), > > > I got this error: > > > > you do that using linux32 ? (I don't think it matters much but who > > knows...). Could you also try to reproduce that in a simple > > deboostrapped chroot to see if the cowbuilder LD_PRELOAD isn;'t the > > culprit ? > > This bug is starting to look more and more like a Heisenbug. Upgrading libc6 > only fails about half of the time, but other packages (tzdata for example) also > fail sometimes with similar "out of memory errors": > > etting up tzdata (2007i-2) ... > cowdancer: unexpected WIFEXITED status in waitpid > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst: line 29: /etc/timezone: Cannot allocate memory > dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > tzdata > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > However, the bug goes away if I unset the libcowdancer.so LD_PRELOAD, I guess > that's where the problem is in. > > Some more debugging shows that the errors occors in the call to debconf: > > + PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 > ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY > ++ '[' '' ']' > ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst configure 2.7-3 > cowdancer: unexpected WIFEXITED status in waitpid > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: line 142: /etc/ld.so.conf: Cannot allocate memory > > > So, I guess this really is a bug in cowdancer, although I have no idea > what the problem could be. hmm probably. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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