Bug#507461: lintian: internal error: command failed with error code 123

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:34 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 01 décembre 2008 à 15:59 +0000, Adam D. Barratt a écrit :
> > Is the source package currently publicly available anywhere? That would 
> > certainly be a useful starting point in terms of debugging the issue.
> 
> Here it is:

Thanks. I've built the package myself and confirmed that I can reproduce
the issue; I can also reproduce it with the version of frozen-bubble
currently in the archive.

My testing suggests that lintian may be filling up the filename buffer
faster than file / md5sum can empty it. Adding a 1ms sleep (well, a
select()), at the end of each iteration of the main processing loop in
the collection scripts appears to resolve the issue[1], at the expense
of taking over 30 seconds to check the package on a 1.8GHz amd64.

Looking through the logs of the currently running 2.1.0 run on
lintian.d.o shows nearly 60 other packages exhibiting similar issues in
the file-info and md5sums collection scripts.

Regards,

Adam

[1] At least, "for f in $(seq 1 1 100) ; do time frontend/lintian
frozen-bubble-data_2.2.0~rc2-1_all.deb ; done" returns no errors and
produces a single lintian warning about the copyright file.