Bug#148472: marked as done (apt: apt-get *always* fails with a segmentation fault.)
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux tsunami 2.4.18 #2 Wed May 15 17:14:12 SAST 2002
i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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I am also using the XFS filesystem (I've applied the debianized xfs
patch for kernel 2.4.18 and rebuilt my kernel.)
* last couple of lines of 'strace apt-get update'
...
...
open("/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin", O_RDONLY) = 6
fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3319402, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 3319402, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 6, 0) = 0x4027d000
stat64("/var/lib/apt/lists/shrike.thawte.com_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7186196, ...}) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:16:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#148472: apt: apt-get *always* fails with a segmentation fault.
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ryan Tracey wrote:
> I am also using the XFS filesystem (I've applied the debianized xfs
> patch for kernel 2.4.18 and rebuilt my kernel.)
XFS is known to corrupt the APT (AFAIK at least) mmap database in odd
ways. Don't use it for /var.
Jason
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