Wichert Akkerman writes: > Dan managed to come up with a way to reproduce a dpkg segfault. After > some poking around with dpkg the problem turned out to be that the > filelist was being written over the package information. Oops!
Do you have any more details about how to reproduce the fault? > The problem seems to be a patch applied to main/filesdb.c on Dec 5 1999 > (http://cvs.debian.org/dpkg/main/filesdb.c.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.11&cvsroot=dpkg) > which was included in dpkg 1.6.1 or 1.6.2. The patch came from Richard > Kettlewell and reduces the dpkg memory uses. > > I'm going to sit down tonight and carefully go over that patch to > see if I can figure out what it does wrong. If I can't figure it out > I'll guess I'll undo it (and reintroduce --smallmem as well I > guess). Richard, this was your patch, I expect some feedback from > you as well :) I can't initially see what the problem might be, but I'll have another look later. I do notice that (in the presence of the patch in question) all references to the static variable fnvb in function ensure_packagefiles_available() should be safely removable, but I doubt that this is directly relevant. ttfn/rjk
