Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz <debbugs@hrw.one.pl>]

Dnia piątek, 3 listopada 2006 11:47, Frank Küster napisał:

> If that happens again, please send the output of "ps axf".  One thing is
> different to the older bug, though:  Back then, it wasn't possible to
> stop it with Ctrl-C.

I rebooted machine since then and did 'apt-get remove tex-common tetex*' to
get clean situation. After few hours I have:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3268 root      25   0  641m 614m  432 R 93.5 48.6 150:56.82 kpsewhich

ps afx tree:

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
 2077 ?        Ss     0:01 kdeinit Running...                                          
 2203 ?        S      2:48  \_ konsole [kdeinit]                                           
29185 pts/12   Ss     0:00  |   \_ /bin/bash
29215 pts/12   S      0:00  |   |   \_ bash
  460 pts/12   Sl+    0:05  |   |       \_ aptitude install openembedded-essential
 1354 pts/12   S+     0:00  |   |           \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 17 --configure libkpathsea4 tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin texinfo sgml-base xml-core sgml-data docbook libosp5 libostyle1c2 openjade docbook-dsssl tetex-extra tipa jadetex libsgmls-perl sgmlspl docbook-utils openembedded-essential
 1975 pts/12   S+     0:00  |   |               \_ /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst configure 
 3268 pts/12   R+   147:15  |   |                   \_ kpsewhich --format=web2c files fmtutil.cnf

'openembedded-essential' is metapackage:

15:55 hrw@work:hrw$ apt-cache show openembedded-essential
Package: openembedded-essential
Version: 1.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Marcin Juszkiewicz <hrw@openembedded.org>
Depends: python (>= 2.3), ccache, build-essential, quilt, sed, bison, wget, 
cvs, subversion, git-core, monotone, coreutils, unzip, texi2html, texinfo,
libsdl1.2-dev, docbook-utils, gawk


> Also, before you kill it again, please check whether there are any
> directories in /tmp that look like created by tetex's postinst, and just
> copy ("cp -a") the most recent one outside /tmp, so that it is
> preserved.

15:52 hrw@work:hrw$ ls /tmp/ -a
.               gconfd-hrw   index.html?sm_command=build    ksocket-hrw  orbit-root      v995212
..              gconfd-root  index.html?sm_command=build.1  mc-hrw       ssh-UvPBQF1982  vmware-hrw
album_info.xml  gpg-eIVKXi   kde-hrw                        mc-root      test            .X0-lock
aptitudeEwiQYu  .ICE-unix    kde-hrw~                       orbit-hrw    v920934         .X11-unix

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