Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-22 Thread Kristof Csillag
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Followup-For: Bug #766242 I am seeing this, too. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
I too see dpkg hang in the configure phase and consuming all the memory it can get. strace didn't yield anything useful apart from repeated brk() calls. C. -- ,''`. Christian Hofstaedtler z...@debian.org : :' : Debian Developer `. `' 7D1A CFFA D9E0 806C 9C4C D392 5C13 D6DB 9305 2E03 `-

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: severity -1 serious On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 14:07:48 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable It appears to work for many people, so I'd say it's not unusable. :) During a routine upgrade I noticed dpkg

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian Hofstaedtler z...@debian.org (2014-10-21): I too see dpkg hang in the configure phase and consuming all the memory it can get. strace didn't yield anything useful apart from repeated brk() calls. In these situations, something like gdb would probably more helpful than strace. (At

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org [141021 22:03]: Christian Hofstaedtler z...@debian.org (2014-10-21): I too see dpkg hang in the configure phase and consuming all the memory it can get. strace didn't yield anything useful apart from repeated brk() calls. In these situations,

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 21:17:24 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: I too see dpkg hang in the configure phase and consuming all the memory it can get. strace didn't yield anything useful apart from repeated brk() calls. Actually the most useful thing to use in such cases is something

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Followup-For: Bug #766242 Hi, I'm also suffering from this bug. As I do not have dpkg symbols, the gdb backtrace is not really useful. I give you nonetheless in case you still have the debug symbols: with the adresses in the backtrace, you will be able to find

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 23:08:51 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Followup-For: Bug #766242 Here is the log of a other call of sudo dpkg --configure -a -D7 Note that the log file (uncompressed) is about 615M. Thanks, although I've already reproduced this

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Followup-For: Bug #766242 Hi (again) Looking at the trace I sent you, it seems that the perl package was involve. As any --configure call to dpkg (directly or indirectly with apt) was blocking, I tried to manually explicitely configure perl: njean@eyak:~$ sudo

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:26:57 +0200 Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: Thanks, although I've already reproduced this with Zack's database, as I mentioned earlier I'm already looking into fixing this. I'll be uploading a fixed packages probably early tomorrow. attached is a 115 MB log from

Bug#766242: dpkg: consumes all available RAM and crashes, during configure phase

2014-10-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! Ok, I've got a fix now that solves this problem, I'll be running the functional test suite, and adding few more tests to it, to catch this issue and possibly some other ones, and will be uploading tomorrow, after I've woken up and done the above. Thanks for the logs! But there's no need to