*some more info...*
I got a ibm x335 series 2 x netburst xeon with 4gb of ram Debian 4.0 kernel
2.6.22-cks1
I don't know exactly what and when happens, but since 2/3 weeks ago, I
got dpkg misteriously broken. Trying --install, --remove, the result is
always the same:
*unable to install updated status of 'packet_name'<: No such file or
directory
and segfault error.*
Here it is what I got if I try to remove f.e. ncftp:
*XeonServer:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get remove ncftp
Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto
Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti saranno RIMOSSI:
ncftp
0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 1 da rimuovere e 3 non aggiornati.
È necessario prendere 0B di archivi.
Dopo l'estrazione, verranno liberati 1094kB di spazio su disco.
Continuare [S/n]? S
dpkg: errore processando ncftp (--remove):
impossibile installare lo stato aggiornato di `ncftp'<: No such file or
directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.*
Sounds like dpkg can't write to its database file
(/var/lib/dpkg/status).
The output of: ls -l /var/lib/dpkg:
*drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-01 12:57 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-07-01 13:36 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-07-01 13:35 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2007-09-29 22:30 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2095 2008-07-01 13:02 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2095 2007-09-29 22:37 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 57344 2007-01-02 00:00 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2008-07-01 13:36 lock
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2008-07-01 12:33 methlock
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-09-29 22:29 methods
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-02 00:00 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 2007-09-29 22:36 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-09-29 22:30 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1869718 2008-07-01 13:36 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1869748 2008-07-01 12:09 status.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1869718 2008-07-01 13:35 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-01 13:36 updates
*
I recovered 'status', 'available' and 'diversions' files from -old
versions.
I did reboot.
I've also downloaded "dpkg_1.13.25_i386.deb" wich is actually the
version I got installed and tried to recover it with:
* # ar x dpkg_version_arch.deb
# mv data.tar.gz /data.tar.gz
# cd /
# tar xzfv data.tar.gz*
I was suspecting could be a memory issue, because since the last two
weeks I've found another strange kernel error causing apparently only vsftpd
to not work properly:
*BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000
printing eip:
f8a8216f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: ipv6 button ac battery reiserfs loop ext3 jbd mbcache
dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod raid1 raid0 md_mod ide_generic ide_cd cdrom
sd_mod generic ohci_hcd tg3 mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi
scsi_mod usbcore serverworks ide_core thermal processor fan
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f8a8216f>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00210202 (2.6.18-5-686 #1)
EIP is at 0xf8a8216f
eax: f8a834f6 ebx: 00000005 ecx: f8a88c93 edx: ffffff38
esi: 0000002f edi: 00000000 ebp: f65ee000 esp: f65eff98
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process vsftpd (pid: 2092, ti=f65ee000 task=c312caa0 task.ti=f65ee000)
Stack: 0000082c f65effbc dfa97740 f8a766cb 00000005 0000002f 0000002f
f8a92ea9
00000000 00000005 00000003 00000000 0000002f 0000002f bf88da58
000000bb
0000007b c010007b 000000bb b7fc1410 00000073 00200246 bf88da04
0000007b
Call Trace:
Code: 89 d0 83 c4 04 5b 5e c3 57 56 53 83 ec 10 8b 7c 24 2c e8 00 00 00
00 58 2d 65 ec ff ff ba 38 ff ff ff 83 b8 dd 5c 00 00 00 74 44 <8b> 07
89 44 24 08 c7 44 24 0c 00 00 00 00 e8 92 40 ff ff 89 c3
EIP: [<f8a8216f>] 0xf8a8216f SS:ESP 0068:f65eff98*
I thoug was a kernel problem but today I booted the
original kernel:
Linux 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 16:41:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
same issues!!
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
