Bug#47768: marked as done (apt: apt crashes my boxes)
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From: Ian Eure <ieure@uswest.net>
Subject: apt: apt crashes my boxes
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In the last week, apt has crashed all three of my current potato boxes.
This is extremely bad, but may not be apt's fault.
At seemingly random times during an `apt-get upgrade', the systeom crashes
completely. I have had the same problem occur on three different systems.
System #1:
Pentium-MMX 200, 24mb RAM, current potato, self-built 2.2.11 kernel
Crashed: during `apt-get update', at "Reading package lists".
System #2:
Pentium 90, 40mb ram, current potato, self-built 2.2.12 kernel
Crashed: Once during package download, once during package install while
upgrading.
System #3:
K6-3D 266, 192mb ram, current potato, 2.2.12 self-built kernel.
Crashed: once during package install while upgrading under X.
Apt may just be aggrivating a kernel bug, or it may be dpkg causing the crashes.
Crash symptoms:
entire system stops responding. Numlock won't toggle, kernel magic-sysrq has
no effect, does not respond to pings. Completely dead system. Crashes do not
occur 100% of the time, but enough so that the last few times I have tried
upgrading, by box hung.
Any other info I can get?
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux Phalanx 2.2.12 #1 Wed Oct 6 10:49:04 PDT 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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Subject: Re: Bug#47768: apt: apt crashes my boxes
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ian Eure wrote:
> In the last week, apt has crashed all three of my current potato boxes.
>
> This is extremely bad, but may not be apt's fault.
'may' -> 'is not'
It is fundamentally impossible for APT, let alone any users space program
to crash a properly designed OS (for example, Linux) The fact that your
systems are crashing in a permanent way indicates a fundamental problem
either with the OS or your hardware.
I suggest you talk to the kernel people, or maybe ask if you don't have a
particularly buggy kernel version, or something like that. In fact the
kernel people will probably tell you to replace your
hardware/recompile/upgrade/whatever so you might want to try stuff like
that first.
Jason
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