On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:24:04 +0100 David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:21:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:11:57PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > Zip up the lists/ directory + your /etc/apt. DO NOT run update again > > > before doing that. Upload that somewhere. > > > > http://q.bofh.de/~mh/stuff/apt-data-812251.tar.xz (42MB) > > > > Hope this helps. Please tell me when I can remove the download > > Thanks (also to Francesco who uploaded the files privately). You're welcome! > > Unfortunately I can't reproduce it with either at the moment, which is > a bit strange at the very least in Francesco's case as his output > suggests a segfault at 65% done, which should be still inside the lists/ > files and not in the dpkg/status file as the later is very small > compared to (multiple) Packages+Translation files. Mhhhhh. > > I drop my binary caches just to be sure > # rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin > and then I am trying as user with > $ apt-cache policy -o dir::etc=/tmp/poli/etc -o dir::state::lists=/tmp/poli/lists -o apt::architecture=i386 > [...] > That should be segfaulting as any apt command is building a binary cache > (if need be in memory only), but it doesn't for me. I presume it does > for you guys… The above commands lead to a segfault on my i386 Debian testing box (Soekris net5501-60 board), but not on an amd64 box. Have you tried to reproduce the bug on an i386 (real hardware or virtual) machine? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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