On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:42:30AM +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > on a diskless server, I keep the ports tree and pkgng databases on a newnfs > NFSv4 mount. After a bunch of "portmaster -a" runs, the pkgng sqlite database > appears to get corrupted. For example, when I try to update an existing port, > this happens: > > root@five:~ # portmaster ports-mgmt/pkg > ... > ===> Registering installation for pkg-1.0.11 > Installing pkg-1.0.11...pkg: sqlite: database disk image is malformed > (pkgdb.c:925) > pkg: sqlite: database disk image is malformed (pkgdb.c:1914) > *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70 > > I have removed all ports and the pkgng databases and reinstalled, but the > corruption seems to return after a few days or weeks of installing and > deinstalling ports. > > On another system that has a disk, that corruption of the pkgng database has > not happened over six months or so. I therefore wonder if storing the sqlite > database on an NFS-mount is triggering some sort of bug, either in pkgng or > in newnfs. AFAIK, pkgng is using locks on the database quite liberally, could > that be where a bug is lurking? > > I'm happy to help debug this, but someone would need to let me know what to > try. >
This can usually happen when a user do not have the nfs lock system started. Are you sure that nfs lock is correctly started? If that is the case, there is anyway a bug in pkgng that should catch the problem and refuse to operate in such situation, I know sqlite to provide a mechanism that allow us to be able to catch this, I'm not sure yet to use it. regards, Bapt
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