Joost, After receiving your request to run your test program to try to catch the update-menu's bug, and having the symptom happen again to me here this evening, here's some more information about the update-menu's bug for your reference.
Summary: -------- - Had the symptom happen again. - Was able to run the killtest program you wrote. - Had an interesting error output from it when I ran a new copy of RXVT with killtest running in the background in X. - System is 2.0.36 with 2.1.2-0pre2 libc6 - Both libstdc++2.9 2.91.61-1 and libstdc++2.9 2.91.61-2 appear to be loaded at the same time? (Is this odd to you? In dselect, they both show as installed, and the lower one shows that it's up-to-date...) - Menu version 2.1.2-3 - Hardware: AMD K6-2 350/96MB RAM (in case it matters...) Here's the output of dselect/apt when it hung this time. This time I was REMOVING packages: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: knews inewsinn slrn uudeview 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1375kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 47056 files and directories currently installed.) Removing inewsinn ... Removing knews ... Update-menus[12173]: further output (if any) will appear in /tmp/update-menus.12173 update-menus, debugging Bug#42051. ERROR: second kill returns 0!, i=0 See also http://joostje.op.het.net/menu/index.htmlupdate-menus, debugging bug #42051. Parent got SIGUSR2! Please reportSee also http://joostje.op.het.net/menu/index.html Removing slrn ... dpkg - warning: while removing slrn, directory `/etc/news' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing slrn, directory `/var/lib/slrn' not empty so not removed. --- HUNG HERE --- HIT CTRL-C HERE --- dpkg: error processing slrn (--remove): subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt) /var/lib/dpkg/info/slrn.postinst: /usr/sbin/slrnconfig: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: Sub-process exited unexpectedly Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. installation script returned error exit status 100. Press RETURN to continue. --------- So it continued and started the removal of slrn and then hung during that, not right at the place where your signals should have been received...? --------- Here's the results of your killtest program: - Normal operation (nothing else running), everything okay. - Loading a copy of RXVT while "killtest" was running produced: /killtest: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: undefined symbol: _dl_init_next, version GLIBC_2.0 Don't know what that means, but maybe it helps? The message came out and then the dots continued normally... --------- Hope this new data helps you! Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
