Bug#634696: apt: http transport dies with signal 10
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.15.2
Severity: important
apt-get update fails to update list when it's configured to use http transport.
signal 10 is a buserror here on sparc hardware.
This hardware is very sensible to memory alignment access, more than intel hardware.
Replacing all lines deb http://.... with lines like deb ftp://... allow the process
update it's list correctly.
Here's the transcript:
root# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB]
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received signal 10.
root#
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main
#deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main
#deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sid/volatile main
#deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sid/volatile main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-sparc64-smp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.8.0 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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