Bug#558360: lintian fails silently with error code 141

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

    Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> hat am 25. Dezember 2009 um 20:05 geschrieben:
    
    > "devnull@lordb.de" <devnull@lordb.de> writes:
    > 
    > > 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 ...
    > 
    > The output should be:
    > 
    > N: Lintian v2.2.18
    > 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/BZlkcVrWuN ...
    > N: Processing 1 packages...
    > N: Selected action: check
    > N: Requested unpack level: 1
    > 
    > It's dying somewhere between setting up the lab and starting to check
    > packages, probably while loading information about the checks and
    > collection scripts.
    > 
    > Could you try running lintian with -d -d -d instead to get a more detailed
    > trace?
    This make no difference. I still get the same output. I even tried it with linitian 2.3.1 with the same result.
    
    Just to note it again: Sometimes lintian works (say every fourth or fifth attempt) but must of the time it doesn't. Here the output of the attempt that worked:
    
    $ lintian --check --allow-root -b -d -d -d ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb; echo "Return: $?"
    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/48DQsjNNS7 ...
    N: Reading collector description file doc-base-files.desc ...
    N: order: 1
    N: script: doc-base-files
    N: type: b
    N: unpack-level: 2
    N: version: 1
    N: Reading collector description file strings.desc ...
    N: file-info: 1
    N: order: 2
    N: script: strings
    ...
    N: Current unpack level is 2
    N: Current unpack level is 2
    N: Decreasing unpack level to 1 (removing files) ...
    N: 15 tags overridden (15 warnings)
    N: Removing /tmp/48DQsjNNS7 ...
    Return: 1
    
    > 
    > Nowhere does Lintian just randomly exit without printing an error, so
    > something very strange is going wrong with your Lintian setup.
    
    There should be nothing special about my lintian setup. I'm fairly sure about this because I usually use lintian from within a cowdancer environment, which is a clean Ubuntu installation, and this lintian call fails as well. (My other test were run directly on my server and not from within the cowdancer environment.)
    
    > 
    > -- 
    > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>