From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946037AbWLVLIG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:08:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946039AbWLVLIG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:08:06 -0500 Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:53771 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946037AbWLVLIF (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:08:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:07:47 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Gordon Farquharson , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Andrei Popa , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Florian Weimer , Marc Haber Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) Message-ID: <20061222110747.GA13793@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <97a0a9ac0612202332p1b90367bja28ba58c653e5cd5@mail.gmail.com> <97a0a9ac0612210117v6f8e7aefvcfb76de1db9120bb@mail.gmail.com> <20061221012721.68f3934b.akpm@osdl.org> <97a0a9ac0612212020i6f03c3cem3094004511966e@mail.gmail.com> <20061222100004.GC10273@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061222100637.GA12105@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061222101055.GA12230@deprecation.cyrius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061222101055.GA12230@deprecation.cyrius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Martin Michlmayr [2006-12-22 11:10]: > > immediately when I started wget, the hanging apt-get process > > continued. > ... and now that we've completed this step, the apt cache has suddenly > been reduced (see Gordon's mail for an explanation) and it segfaults: One of my questions was why apt-get worked to install the initramfs-tools, the kernel and some other packages but later hung while it was building the cache (which clearly it had built already to install some packages): before the installer offers to install additional packages, it changes the apt sources, which leads to apt rebuilding the cache, and here it hangs. Remember how I said that downloading a file with wget prompts apt to work again? Apparently any filesystem access will do (I just ran find / > /dev/null). Gordon, can you confirm this? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/