Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 1 May 2001 09:50:28 +0000 From mark@ddf.net Tue May 01 04:50:28 2001 Return-path: Received: from squit.ddf.net (mail.ddf.net) [195.82.124.200] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14uWnb-0001VS-00; Tue, 01 May 2001 04:50:27 -0500 Received: from home.ddf.net (mail.ddf.net [195.82.124.193]) by mail.ddf.net (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0-1) with ESMTP id f419oKiq010613 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:50:25 +0100 Received: from yarbles.ddf.intranet (yarbles.ddf.intranet [192.168.144.16]) by home.ddf.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id KAA01474; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:50:19 +0100 Received: from yarbles.ddf.intranet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with ESMTP id f419oH2b014941; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:50:17 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by yarbles.ddf.intranet (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) id f419oGl9014939; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:50:16 +0100 Message-Id: <200105010950.f419oGl9014939@yarbles.ddf.intranet> From: Mark Sheppard To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: Bus error after I/O error on available X-Reportbug-Version: 1.15 X-Mailer: reportbug 1.15 Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:50:16 +0100 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.0 Severity: normal Dpkg dies with a bus error if there's an I/O error while reading /var/lib/dpkg/available. It should catch the I/O error, report the problem and exit gracefully rather than just dying. Getting a new hard disk would be a workaround in my case :-) Mark. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux yarbles 2.2.19 #1 Sun Apr 8 13:42:11 EST 2001 i586 Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010424 The GNU stdc++ library ii sysvinit 2.78-4 System-V like init.