Your message dated Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:52:32 +0200
with message-id <20090414175232.gc4...@yellowpig>
and subject line Bug#511698: popen broken on 32bit userland with 64bit kernel
has caused the Debian Bug report #511698,
regarding update-menus fails with unknown error
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: menu
Version: 2.1.41
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Running update-menus either from triggers at the end of an apt transaction or as
root results in this output:
Unknown error, message=exec /bin/bash -o pipefail -c 'dpkg-query --show
--showformat="\${status} \${provides} \${package}\n" | sed -n -e
"/installed\|triggers-awaited\|triggers-pending
/{s/^.*\(installed\|triggers-awaited\|triggers-pending\) *//; s/[, ][, ]*/\n/g;
p}"'
Running the command being executed manually results in the following similar
output:
acpi
acpi-support
acpi-support-base
acpid
adduser
smeg
alacarte
alien
alsa
alsa-base
audio-mixer
alsa-utils
anacron
apmd
app-install-data
...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-jclinton (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 menu depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-0exp1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
menu recommends no packages.
Versions of packages menu suggests:
ii gksu 2.0.0-6 graphical frontend to su
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:53:52PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Below is the answer of the GLIBC maintainer.
> It appears that these bugs are instances of bug #521863
> against the Linux kernel. This bug will be fixed in
> 2.6.26-2-amd64 for lenny and 2.6.29-1-amd64 for sid.
>
> I will let the bugs open so other affected users can see.
> Please close your bug once you have updated your kernel
> and confirmed this fix the issue.
Well, Lenny 5.0.1 has been released with this fix and I tested it
fixed the issue, so I am closing these reports.
Thanks for your cooperation,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
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