Re: Problems with apt

Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 22:41 schrieb Panu Matilainen:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:38 +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Op donderdag 31 maart 2005 20:02, schreef Horst Graffy:
> > > this means your list of packages is to large (1244 to upgrade).
> > >
> > > split your upgrade into smaller pieces:
>
> "Smaller than 900" sounds like overflow of a hard limit somewhere but I
> don't see anything obvious from a quick check and I don't remember
> seeing this myself no matter how big the upgrade was (but then I'm not
> sure if I've actually done an upgrade with over 1000 packages ever). I'm
> not really familiar with the fetcher method code but getting a core dump
> and a backtrace from it might help ... (live gdb backtrace would be just
> as well but I don't think you can easily attach to the forked process
> from gdb before it dies).
AFAIK the limit was always around 1000 packages, so the number 900 is below 
1000 ;)
And I haven't installed so much packages in my systems ... so I can't help to 
reproduce the error or get some debug informations.

But a lot of people with large updates reported this problem and I know it is 
hard to replay this transaction, because with the split in smaller pieces it 
has always worked ... 

> Also you can always try running with "-o debug::acquire::ftp=1" (which
> IIRC will produce a LOT of junk :) and see if there's any suspicious
> looking stuff in there.
ok, I will advise the people in the community 
http://www.linux-club.de/viewforum.php?f=62 to do this, you know SuSE-9.3 is 
coming ... and I'm sure a lot people would upgrade 9.2 to 9.3 with apt :)

cu
Toni