Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:54:01AM +0100, Ed Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > >> I can reproduce this on my Debian Etch system, which is a UML system >> with only 64MB of RAM. The version of aptitude is 0.4.3 compiled at Sep >> 3 2006 17:35:53 >> > > Could you be running out of memory? "top" claims that aptitude uses > around 5-10MB to start (plus 10MB of shared memory). >
Yes, this is possible. Perhaps a malloc() is returning NULL and aptitude is failing to check for this. If so, this is still a bug that ought to be fixed. I've now tried building aptitude with debug symbols to obtain a meaningful backtrace, but I can't debug it with gdb: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Install/aptitude-0.4.3$ gdb aptitude GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/aptitude [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Error while reading shared library symbols: Cannot find new threads: generic error Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 4059: generic error So it looks like a bug should be filed against GDB too :( ... Any ideas on how to proceed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
