Re: new dpkg packages up for testing

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:57:19PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:33:58PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > Michael Banck wrote:
> > >On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:14:45PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > >>Hm, I've noticed that start-stop-daemon dumps core when booting syslogd 
> > >>and inetd.  I'm not sure if this is so since I installed it, or since 
> > >>some later point.
> > >
> > >How annoying, as this was one of the bugs that's supposed to be fixed by
> > >that version. The Hurd boots up fine here, but I haven't restarted
> > >services a lot. But on the other hand, I was not even able to configure
> > >the syslogd and inetd packages because of segfaults before I switched to
> > >the new package. I'll take a look at it when I get home tonight.
> > 
> > I've replaced dpkg with 1.10.20 and there is no much difference.  On 
> > boot, starting syslogd continues to dump core, but starting inetd 
> > doesn't.  So there is something else that influences these core dumps 
> > besides dpkg package.
> 
> Perhaps you can try to run /etc/init.d/<package> {start|stop|restart} by
> hand to see whether it's s-s-d or something else that makes it segfault.

I've just used s-s-d from your package and it does not segfault anymore,
we should prod the dpkg team to include this, it's really annoying, and
make it difficult to install a system from scratch, or to use it. :>

Ognyan are you using Michael's packages with version 1.10.20.0.1 ?
Located on people.debian.org or the ones that were uploaded to the
official archive ?

regards,
guillem