Bug#558360: lintian fails silently with error code 141

["devnull@lordb.de" <devnull@lordb.de>]

    Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> hat am 24. Dezember 2009 um 20:42 geschrieben:
    
    > tags 558360 unreproducible moreinfo
    > thanks
    > 
    > 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.
    
    Gladly, but I'm not quite sure how and what to provide as debugging output. For starters I've run lintian (2.2.18 this time) with the "-d" switch:
    
     $ lintian --check --allow-root --show-overrides -i -b -d ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb
     N: Lintian v2.2.18ubuntu1
     N: Lintian root directory: /usr/share/lintian
     N: Configuration file: /etc/lintianrc
     N: Laboratory:
     N: Archive directory:
     N: Distribution:
     N: Default unpack level: 1
     N: Architecture: any
     N: ----
     N: Setting up lab in /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw ...
    
    Return code is still 141. The content of the lab directory is:
    
     $ ll /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw/*
     /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw/binary:
     total 0
    
     /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw/info:
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 25 10:50 binary-packages
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 25 10:50 source-packages
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 25 10:50 udeb-packages
    
     /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw/source:
     total 0
    
     /tmp/VIcPpbdtdw/udeb:
     total 0
    
    I've also tried to run lintian with a non-root user and with fewer parameters:
    
     #lintian --check -b -d ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb
    
    but with the same result.
    
    > 
    > > 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.
    > 
    Problem is still present in version 2.2.18 (see above).
    > -- 
    > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>