Package: approx Version: 4.0-3 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line ***
This is a backported approx attempting to fix the same problem in version 3.3.0. See below... -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii curl 7.18.2-8lenny2 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii openbsd-inetd [inet-super 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver ii update-inetd 4.31 inetd configuration file updater approx recommends no packages. approx suggests no packages. -- debconf information: approx/port: 9999 This is a backport created by Sylvain Le Gall in response to my post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01991.html) to debian user. That post referred to version 3.3.0 which is the official version of approx in lenny x86_64. Downloads by remote clients, and by some commands on the local host, do not complete. The progress bar shows the download proceeding normally. Repeated "ls -l" also show the file downloading. After roughly consistent amount of the file has been downloaded the download stalls. It stays in this state for many seconds, possibly a minute or two. The file then disappears, reappears as zero length, and then starts to grow to roughly the same size it was before, stalls, disappears, reappears ... For example on the server running "aptitude update" seems to work just fine, but "aptitude build-dep approx" would download the first bit of a needed dependency, then start the above described cycle. From a remote client even "aptitude update" would not finish. The Packages.gz file would start to download but would not finish before starting from scratch. The logs on the server show messages such as: Jul 27 02:36:53 fly approx: Removing debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/Packages.3113.697879076 (size: 91295) Jul 27 02:36:53 fly approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) Jul 27 02:37:46 fly approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) Jul 27 02:38:17 fly approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) Jul 27 02:38:44 fly approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) Upgrading from 3.3.0 to Sylvain Le Gall's backported 4.0-3 didn't change things. willy -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
