Bug#409336: apt-get erratic (segfaults, unmet dependencies, hanging)
I have also been experiencing this bug in the last few days (same
stack trace as ian). I can believe that it's the kernel mmap bug
that's affecting this because I rebooted to load 2.6.18-3-686 (Debian
2.6.18-7) on Mar 20, and this is the first time I've done apt stuff
since then.
I'm going to try and back out to 2.6.17-2-686 (Debian 2.6.17-9) on the
weekend and see it that helps.
fyi: seems to have been fixed in vanilla 2.6.19.2 [1]. It seems to
have been affecting apt, rtorrent, and I think rpm too.
There's even an article on lwn [2] about the reasons for the bug, and
via google you can find various dissections of the bug [3]. Based on
the comment I seriously expect 2.6.17 and/or 2.6.19 to fix the bug.
[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.2
[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/215868/
[3] http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.3/0752.html
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