Your message dated Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:52:32 +0200
with message-id <20090414175232.gc4...@yellowpig>
and subject line Bug#511698: popen broken on 32bit userland with 64bit kernel
has caused the Debian Bug report #520916,
regarding hanging update-menus process
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Package: menu
Version: 2.1.41
Severity: normal
Using automatic installation via FAI I see a hanging "update-menus
--trigger" call causing the build to fail:
root 22433 0.0 0.2 2696 1312 pts/0 S+ 14:57 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/menu.postinst triggered /usr/share/menu
root 22434 97.6 0.2 3144 1236 pts/0 R+ 14:57 2:24 update-menus
--trigger
strace-ing the PID outside the chroot gives me tons of EBADF which
might be the reason for the 100% cpu load and the hanging process:
[...]
read(4293087900, 0xf7f18000, 8192) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
read(4293087900, 0xf7f18000, 8192) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
read(4293087900, 0xf7f18000, 8192) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
read(4293087900, 0xf7f18000, 8192) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
[...]
Killing the update-menus process and manually invoking update-menus
inside the chroot displays:
# update-menus -v
update-menus[12725]: Dpkg is not locking dpkg status area, good.
update-menus[12725]: Reading installed packages list...
acpi-support
acpi-support-base
acpid
adduser
[...]
-> it displays the whole package list and then it just hangs (same
problem as running via FAI).
Funnily it works when invoked through strace:
# strace -o /tmp/log -ffff update-menus -v
update-menus[11649]: Dpkg is not locking dpkg status area, good.
update-menus[11649]: Reading installed packages list...
update-menus[11649]: Reading translation rules in
/etc/menu-methods/translate_menus.
update-menus[11649]: Reading menu-entry files in /etc/menu/.
update-menus[11649]: 0 menu entries found (0 total).
update-menus[11649]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/lib/menu/.
update-menus[11649]: 0 menu entries found (0 total).
update-menus[11649]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/.
update-menus[11649]: 38 menu entries found (38 total).
update-menus[11649]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/default/.
update-menus[11649]: 0 menu entries found (38 total).
update-menus[11649]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/.
update-menus[11649]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/fluxbox
#
Do you have any idea what's going on here?
Please let me know if you need any further information, I've a
chroot available where I can easily reproduce/work on the problem.
System information: building a Debian/sid i386 system on a amd64 box.
ii libc6 2.9-6
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii menu 2.1.41
generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications
regards,
-mika-
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:53:52PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Below is the answer of the GLIBC maintainer.
> It appears that these bugs are instances of bug #521863
> against the Linux kernel. This bug will be fixed in
> 2.6.26-2-amd64 for lenny and 2.6.29-1-amd64 for sid.
>
> I will let the bugs open so other affected users can see.
> Please close your bug once you have updated your kernel
> and confirmed this fix the issue.
Well, Lenny 5.0.1 has been released with this fix and I tested it
fixed the issue, so I am closing these reports.
Thanks for your cooperation,
--
Bill. <[email protected]>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
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