Bug#558360: lintian fails silently with error code 141
tags 558360 unreproducible moreinfo
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Sebastian Krysmanski <devnull@lordb.de> writes:
> When I'm running lintian on a certain custom built .deb package
> (ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb) then lintian sometimes just fails without
> any error message with error code 141.
> $ lintian --check --allow-root --show-overrides -i -b ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb >lintian.txt
>
> $ echo $?
> 141
> In this case "lintian.txt" is empty. However, sometimes (every thrid
> attempt or so) lintian works on this package. The deb package was built
> using cowdancer. I've uploaded it here:
> http://www.mayastudios.com/ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb
I can't duplicate this problem with either lintian 2.2.18 or the current
development version on a Debian host using that same package. This is not
something that Lintian is doing intentionally, so in order to track this
down further we'd need either debugging output or some way to reproduce
it.
> Btw: I know I'm using Ubuntu (9.10) but I don't think this is a Ubuntu
> specific error. If someone using Debian could just check whether this
> problem appears at his/her system as well it'll be nice.
I'm curious if the problem would disappear if you upgraded to the latest
Ubuntu Lintian package.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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