On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:48:31AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Seen twice on lindsay.d.o in the last 24 hours. The exact reason is > unknown, but it is probably during the unpacker (last non-error in the > log is lintian starting the unpack, plus previously we had a race-condition > in the unpacker that could trigger a similar fork-bomp situation). > > Most likely we never fixed this condition and only made it > "sufficiently unlikely" until gcc-8-cross-ports showed up. > > For now, I have disabled the crontab on lindsay.d.o to avoid it taking > down our host.
I tried to build the wxwidgets3.0 3.0.4+dfsg-1 in an unstable chroot a couple of days ago. I use sbuild and it's configured to run lintian in the chroot on the built packages. However lintian ran out of disk space in the chroot, which isn't something I have hit before. And I would expect the build itself to need more disk space than lintian (assuming that the debian/rules clean target is run before lintian is). Lintian appeared to be slowly failing on each binary package in turn, so I just hit Ctrl-C on it. I asked on #debian-devel in case this was a known problem, and lamby pointed out this ticket and suggested adding a note in case this is the same underlying issue, so I'm doing so. I didn't attempt to investigate further yet. Cheers, Olly