On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33:03AM +0200, Michael Karcher wrote: > Some hints to the reported bug: I ran the perl debugger on Adrian's > machine investigating the issue a bit, but did not do a full > investigation. This is what I came up with: > > The download step crashes (i.e. the exec dies) at the point the > "downloading" message is printed to to stdout (Utility.pm:206), because > $stdout is undef at that point. It has been set to undef by the > preparation of the download restoring $stdout from $saved_stdout, the > latter being undefined. A breakpoint to open_log which should initialize > $saved_stdout did not trigger, so open_log was not called. > > I did not investigate further why there was no call to open_log.
Many thanks for doing this. It's probably due to the removal of the "main log" (as opposed to "package log") with the removal of "batch mode" in 0.62.4-1. It may be that the download routine is making use of a variable that is now undef where it previously wasn't. It should be easily corrected. Thanks again, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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