Re: A last release?

Op woensdag 9 februari 2005 20:24, schreef Horst Graffy:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 19:44 schrieb Gustavo Niemeyer:
> > > is it possible to have the problem described in detail at the link
> > > mentioned below to be investigated as well?
> > > ......
> > > E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
> > > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> > >
> > > It has been reported a number of times in the last weeks.
> >
> > It's really hard for me to debug that problem. It's probably
> > related to a missing symbol in a linked library, or something
> > close to that. We've had no reports showing that issue, and code
> > in the ftp method has not been touched for a long time.
> >
> > Are you able to reproduce it in your own environment?

I'll try.  I have 370+ available perhaps it is enough to trigger the problem, 
see the followup messages of the one I posted before as well:
http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2005-February/002628.html

> In my opinion it has something to to with the number of packages to install
> in one call of apt-get upgrade.
>
> In the upgrade period for SuSE-9.2 a lot of people reported this error in a
> german forum. If they splitted the upgrade in more "smaller" ones, all
> worked fine. If the number of packages to upgrade was greater than 800-1000
> rpms, the chance was very good to get this error.
>
> So the problem is hard to reproduce, we have to wait for the next major
> upgrade :(
>
> Toni aka oc2pus


-- 
Richard