Package: libruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7-2 Severity: normal
May warrant higher severity: this bug breaks unrelated packages. In fact, it breaks the installation of any packages at all. However, I would expect someone else to have reported this if it were a general problem. My aptitude update hung at "Registering documents with dhelp..." until I killed the parent process. Here's the relevant terminal log: Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 removed, 482 changed, 1 added doc-base file(s)... NoMethodError: private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:289:in `escape' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:119:in `uri_escape' (erb):48:in `export_section_page' (erb):47:in `each' (erb):47:in `export_section_page' (erb):43:in `each' (erb):43:in `export_section_page' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:94:in `export_section_page' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:42:in `export' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `each_pair' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `export' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:132:in `main' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:250:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:269:in `__set_auto_run' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:91) Registering documents with dhelp... At this point, it hung, consuming > 80% of the CPU. Here's a trace of the jobs. The first one is the one using the CPU; each succeeding one is the parent of the one above. Jobs like the first one (index++) kept running and being respawned. In other words, a job like 30248 would run for awhile, finish, and then a new one would run. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh$ ps -l 30248 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 4 R 0 30248 30003 90 80 0 - 13379 - pts/9 0:05 /usr/bin/index++ --config-file /usr/share/dhelp/swish++.conf --index-file /var/lib/dhelp/doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh$ ps -l 30003 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 S 0 30003 28839 0 80 0 - 2496 - pts/9 0:04 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -w /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse -a /var/lib/doc-base/documents/ldp-en-network-inst [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh$ ps -l 28839 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 S 0 28839 28837 0 80 0 - 2551 - pts/9 0:02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/install-docs --install-changed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh$ ps -l 28837 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 S 0 28837 27220 0 80 0 - 628 - pts/9 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.postinst triggered /usr/share/doc-base I killed 30003 and installation then proceeded. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libruby1.8 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime libruby1.8 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
