Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.36.3+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #460338 I've had apt-proxy running for the Debian (was Etch, just migrated the Xen dom0 to Lenny, which was the last and the most troublesome, but that's another bug report, maybe). Today I inadvertently demonstrated the apt-proxy hang in a way that may be suggestive to those familiar with its internals, or at least provide an easy way to trigger this failure mode.
1) aptitude -u [presumably you could do likewise with apt-proxy] 2) queue some additions/updates; perhaps one or more large debs are necessary (I was installing a non-Xen kernel to make future boot problems more easily fixable than the recent upgrade was) 3) shortly after starting to fetch the files, interrupt it with control-C At this point apt-proxy will cause the "waiting for headers" hang when aptitude is restarted (in this case apt-proxy and aptitude are running on the same machine). apt-proxy is still working away, downloading the large deb. After that was done, I could restart aptitude and everything went normally, with the requested packages [all?!?] downloading almost instantly from apt-proxy's cache. I'm pretty sure this explains at least some of the (infrequent) times I've seen this sort of hang in the past (been using apt-proxy since the bash script version, don't believe it ever did this until v2 came along). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt-proxy depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt ii python-twisted-web 8.1.0-1 An HTTP protocol implementation to apt-proxy recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt-proxy suggests: ii rsync 3.0.3-2 fast remote file copy program (lik -- debconf information: apt-proxy/upgrading-v2: apt-proxy/upgrading-v2-result: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
