Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Cooper
package approx tag 616529 + unreproducible thanks On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > I did several runs of "apt-get update" (or in my case "aptitude -u") and > tried to get new files, but approx always returned the version of > February 22nd. This may be due

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-07 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello Eric, On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > > Running "approx-update --verbose" also seems to have a problem, since it > > doesn't update sid/main/binary-amd64/* any more since February 22nd: > > [...] > > This is neither logger or reported by the daily cron job, so

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-05 Thread Eric Cooper
> approx-gc is run from cron and gets into an endless loop burning CPU > time and - more important - IO operations: > > # ps www 5030 > 5030 ?RN 133:10 /usr/sbin/approx-gc --quiet > > Runnings strace on the process I can see, that it repeatedly visits the same > directories

Bug#616529: Endless loop in approx-gc

2011-03-05 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Package: approx Version: 4.5-1 Severity: important approx-gc is run from cron and gets into an endless loop burning CPU time and - more important - IO operations: # ps www 5030 5030 ?RN 133:10 /usr/sbin/approx-gc --quiet Runnings strace on the process I can see, that it re