I have also been experiencing this bug in the last few days (same stack trace as ian). I can believe that it's the kernel mmap bug that's affecting this because I rebooted to load 2.6.18-3-686 (Debian 2.6.18-7) on Mar 20, and this is the first time I've done apt stuff since then.
I'm going to try and back out to 2.6.17-2-686 (Debian 2.6.17-9) on the weekend and see it that helps. fyi: seems to have been fixed in vanilla 2.6.19.2 [1]. It seems to have been affecting apt, rtorrent, and I think rpm too. There's even an article on lwn [2] about the reasons for the bug, and via google you can find various dissections of the bug [3]. Based on the comment I seriously expect 2.6.17 and/or 2.6.19 to fix the bug. [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.2 [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/215868/ [3] http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.3/0752.html -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
