Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.22.4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
We use apt-show-versions to report on the state of packages on our Debian systems and generate custom puppet facts to gather the information. On some hosts, we see the following error when running apt-show-versions: "Corrupted storable file (binary v2.10) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Storable.pm line 387, at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 240." This seems to be happening most often when we have cron jobs that query apt-show-versions at the same time. I was able to simulate this by running apt-show-versions concurrently, which makes me think there is a race condition or missing file locking at play? Reinitialising the cache with 'apt-show-versions -i' fixes it, but it breaks again randomly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.11 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-show-versions depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii perl [libstorable-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u11 apt-show-versions recommends no packages. apt-show-versions suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
