Package: debtags Version: 1.7.9+b1 Severity: normal Hi,
I noticed that the cronjob running `debtags update' had failed with a
segmentation fault. This can be reproduced by running it from the
command line:
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# /usr/bin/debtags update
Segmentation fault
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Running `apt-get source debtags' to investigate the problem hinted at
what the problem was:
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$ apt-get source debtags
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit.
Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit.
Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit.
Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
E: Error occurred while processing python-numeric (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.funet.fi_pub_linux_mirrors_debian_dists_testing-i386_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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Indeed increasing APT::Cache-Limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf also solved
the debtags crash.
So it seems like debtags cannot handle APT::Cache-Limit being too
small gracefully (with a good error message) and crashes instead.
Sami
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable-i386
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500,
'transitional'), (500, 'testing-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debtags depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-10 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.13-3 Search engine library
ii perl 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime
debtags recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debtags suggests:
pn tagcoll <none> (no description available)
ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web
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