Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 01:21:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Martin Schulze) wrote on 19.02.99 in <[🔎] 19990219102009.B7460@finlandia.artis.uni-oldenburg.de>:
>
> > > <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>) dpkg 30090 weirdass
> > > dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity [83] (Ian Jackson and others
>
> > Bug#30090 looks... ummh difficult to fix. After reading the report I'm not
> > sure if it's likely to happen again when upgrading hamm -> slink.
> > It didn't happen to my upgradings but that doesn't have to mean
> > anything.
>
> As a rule, when I do a bulk upgrade (50-150 packages), it happens to me
> around three times *during that upgrade*.
>
> I don't know how much more release critical you can get; as far as I'm
> concerned, this one is a real show stopper.
There are two common reasons for dpkg coredumping, one is the "circular
symlinks" stuff this bug talks about (well, it's not that common), the
other is dpkg inability to deal with non-english locales. Have you tried
setting LC_ALL=C before upgrading?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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