Re: Bug#52041: apt: Apt fails on SMP machines
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Hirling Endre wrote:
> Apt >=0.3.13 fails with "Bad file descriptor" on SMP machines. It
> seems like a race condition somewhere because the problem
> disappears if I try to trace it with strace or use it on a loaded
> system. 0.3.10slink11 works OK. I don't have versions between the
> two to test with.
APT is not a multi-threaded program, it is [very] unlikely to a have a
race condition with that sort of error.
It rather smells like a kernel problem - particularly since 0.3.10slink
works.
Can you show me a screen dump of it failing at least?
Jason
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