Re: Problems with apt

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Horst Graffy wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 22:41 schrieb Panu Matilainen:
>> "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).
> here another example from today:
> http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?p=157358
>
> 721 upgraded, 77 newly installed, 13 downgegradet, 31 ersetzt, 0 entfernt und

Mm, there goes the theory about ~1000 packages and I certainly have done 
upgrades of that size many, many times. Again, backtraces + the debug 
output from the ftp method might give some clues.

 	- Panu -

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