Package: python-central
Version: 0.6.16
Severity: important
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Hello,
During a recent upgrade, python-central began failing with the following
information:
> pycentral: pycentral cleanup-pkgprepare-updates: found 52 dangling symlinks
> pycentral: pycentral cleanup-pkgprepare-updates: checking for links owned by
> packages (this may take some time)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2349, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2343, in main
> rv = action.run(global_options)
> File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1905, in run
> packaged = self.links_in_packages(dangling)
> File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2016, in links_in_packages
> self.locate(arg_list, cmd_list)
> File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1981, in locate
> fn = line.split(':', 1)[1][1:-11]
> IndexError: list index out of range
> dpkg: error processing python-central (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I followed the traceback and added a few debugging statements in and have found
the cause to be in the links_in_packages function. At the start of the
function, os.sysconf('SC_ARG_MAX') returns (for some reason) -1. After the
reduce function has done it's thing, chunk_max becomes -1185.
As a result of this, the first element of all_chunks is empty. When this is
passed to "dpkg -S", the result is:
> dpkg-query: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument
>
> Use --help for help about querying packages.
which fails to parse with the traceback above.
As a work-around, I've added "if chunk_max = -1: chunk_max = 16384" before the
call to reduce.
Please let me know if I can provide you with any more information.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages python-central depends on:
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
python-central recommends no packages.
python-central suggests no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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