Package: varnish Version: 2.0.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Varnish 2.0.6, when used in conjunction with libvarnish1 2.0.5, will do one of the two following things. 1. If a back-end probe is defined, Varnish will spin on epoll_wait() forever and never actually check the back-end. Varnish also assumes a back-end probe threshold of UINT_MAX while it's spinning, which is obviously incorrect. During this time, Varnish cannot service requests and pegs one CPU of the host system. 2. If a back-end probe is not defined, Varnish will assume a default back-end probe that appears to work well at first but later (seemingly randomly) marks the back-end as unhealthy, and it appears to never mark the back-end as healthy again. Note the default behavior of Varnish is to not probe at all, but in this 2.0.6-2.0.5 combination, a default probe suddenly appears. Installing libvarnish1 2.0.6 fixes these problems. However, the "varnish" 2.0.6 package does not specifically depend on libvarnish1 2.0.6. In my case, I upgraded the "varnish" package without noticing that the "libvarnish1" was not simultaneously upgraded. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (81, 'unstable'), (80, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages varnish depends on: ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups ii gcc 4:4.3.4-1 The GNU C compiler ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libvarnish1 2.0.6-1 shared libraries for Varnish varnish recommends no packages. varnish suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
