Bug#554349: apt: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
Severity: normal
I am currently getting the following. My guess is a malformed pdiff
file. A couple of other people of #debian (oftc) have been seeing
similar errors. Possibly related to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545694 but this is
supposedly fixed on 0.7.24 and one of my co-bug-reporters can
reproduce this on sid.
Note the same pdiff, 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff, occurs before each
error.
This is the first joint bug report I've filed, and I've been using
Debian and filing bug reports since 2001. :-)
Regards, Faheem.
My error
Get:8 http://debian.csail.mit.edu unstable/main
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [9307kB]
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://jonas.genannt.name lenny/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Packages
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/main Sources
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
Ign http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Sources
Hit http://people.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Packages
Hit http://people.debian.org stable/main Sources
Hit http://people.debian.org stable/enslyon Sources
Get:9 http://debian.csail.mit.edu squeeze/main
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [10.2MB]
Get:10 http://debian.csail.mit.edu squeeze/non-free
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [139kB]
Get:11 http://debian.csail.mit.edu squeeze/contrib
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [66.8kB]
Get:12 http://debian.csail.mit.edu squeeze/main
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [4844kB]
E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
from cockroach (stefan at ott dot net) on #debian on oftc (running sid - 0.7.24)
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid Release.gpg
Get:1 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main Translation-en_US
Ign ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en_US
Get:3 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid Release
Hit ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Get:4 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main 2009-11-02-2358.21.pdiff [37.2kB]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main 2009-11-02-2358.21.pdiff [37.2kB]
Get:6 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[70.1kB]
Get:7 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[70.1kB]
Get:8 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[9,274kB]
Get:9 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[9,274kB]
Get:10 ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[9,274kB]
E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
from Hideo on #debian on oftc
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Sources
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Sources
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[4,844kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[4,844kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[9,307kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [86.4kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main
2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [307kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[4,844kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[9,307kB]
E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "56777216";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
RPM "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
RPM::Post-Invoke "";
RPM::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 50
Package: *
Pin: release a=squeeze
Pin-Priority: 50
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 1
Package: *
Pin: release a=snapshot.debian.net
Pin-Priority: 1
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
#deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
#deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool linux-2.6
#deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool gcc-4.0
#deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xen-3.0
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia/debian nvidia/
#deb-src http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia/debian nvidia/
#deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch/
#deb http://galen.dulci.org/debian etch main
#deb-src http://galen.dulci.org/debian etch main
deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian stable main enslyon
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian stable main enslyon
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
deb http://jonas.genannt.name/debian lenny restricted
#deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/
#deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/
#deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.62.1+nmu1 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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