In data domenica 8 marzo 2015 12:40:43, David Kalnischkies ha scritto: > Control: fixed -1 1.1~exp4 > Control: severity -1 normal > > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Valerio Passini wrote: > > This bug it's tremendous: if in my source list there is this Debian mirror > > line: > > > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free; > > > > the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ is quickly filled by a > > Diff_index file growing at a 30MB/s rate until the partition is full. > > Quite obviously the next > Well, I can't reproduce it here. > > Was the file really just called "Diff_index"? > > I presume it was: > ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages.Index > Diff which is the filename for this file: > http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/main/binary-amd64/Package > s.diff/Index > > boot is going to fail for the lack of disk space. I can't understand if > > this bug it's in the mirror or in apt, but it's quite annoying and should > > really be fixed ASAP. Best regards > > There isn't much we can do about it at the moment. apt/stretch (not > jessie!) will know (most) filesizes in advance and check that it isn't > getting feed too much, but that is just preventing bad sympthoms to > appear (= full disk), it isn't a solution for the (unknown) initial > problem. > > Could be a misbehaving proxy (do you have one?), a misbehaving server, > your ISP (via a misbehaving proxy) or any classic man-in-the-middle > really. Hard to know without details. Can you even reproduce it? > > > I am not fully closing this bug as fixed in future version just yet > because I would like to understand what is going on here in case we can > do anything about it (further) to prevent this from happening, but I am > downgrading drastically as this isn't a new issue (= always possible in > all versions of apt), apt isn't made unusuable by it, we are not loosing > any data (well, with a fulldisk we potentially are, but that is the bug > of other tools not handling this case) and its not opening a security > hole. So neither of the reasons for 'grave' apply here and hence not > release critical. > > > Best regards > > David Kalnischkies Hi David, Thank you for taking care of the bug. You are right it's not always reproducible, but it consistently happened to me and to understand the root of this bug would be better for apt. After reporting this bug I removed that mirror from my source.list and since then it disappeared. I'm trying to reproduce it now (with no success). The name I gave to you is correct. To be precise is: ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages.diff_Index so I wrongly wrote the capital letters. I fully understand why you are changing the bug priority, I supposed that in the meantime someone else could confirm this bug, but it didn't happen so at the moment it has affected just my system. You are making good guesses about the root of this bug and apt could be not the culprit, anyhow this open bug could be a good starting point for those who meet similar problems. Best regards Valerio Passini
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