Bug#220579: apt: Crashing while building dependency tree / Much less system calls than before
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:43:18PM +0100, Johannes Niediek wrote:
> Thank you for your quick response. I am sorry that I didn't explain the
> problem more accurately but maybe I can give a better explanation now.
>
> When I type "apt-get update", apt-get connects to the servers listed in
> /etc/apt.conf, which I can watch using iptraf. Then it writes "Reading
> Package lists...Done" and exits. In my opinion, the time it uses
> connecting to the servers is far too short (you don't recognize
> delay) and the message "Building Dependency Tree" is missing.
>
> Interestingly, the error doesn't occur always. Today everything worked,
> except apt didn't write "Building Dependency Tree".
OK, this has nothing to do with #220579 (a segmentation fault), then, and
doesn't sound like a bug at all. The update will run very fast when the
package lists have not changed since the last time it was run (it prints out
a line for each explaining what happened with it), and it has not performed
the "Building Dependency Tree" step since version 0.5.5.
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- mdz
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