Hi, I'm seeking some insight into the behavior of dpkg/apt, since there was an incident with a security-critical server locking up/becoming unresponsive without explanation, and we think it may be related. The server runs unattended-upgrades, and something failed one night, and a package didn't get installed cleanly/properly, and I had to fix it manually the next day (by running apt-get -f install, dpkg --reconfigure etc.) For the next several days after that however, there are null bytes and missing data in history.log, dpkg.log and unattended-upgrades.log. I'm guessing it got into a bad state, there was some process hanging in the background, and it didn't correct itself for a while. In the logs for the timer period after that event, vim just shows: ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ Any idea why the logs would have these null bytes in them? -- Twitter: @ageis XMPP: ageis@jabber.calyxinstitute.org 40BDF095 F9968FB2 9E576C9B CFFCAE2E 3740EE04 GPG: 0xB604C32AD5D7C6D8 (415)-767-5566 ext. 13
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