Bug#549312: run with apt 0.7.23.1

I have now solved the problems with getting apt-0.7.23.1 installed
and ran an apt-get install file command with the file under /dvd
(which was a loop mounted jigdo dvd iso image).

The short version was
1) no segfault; but
2) apt-get (or rather dpkg) failed to find files.

In fact, just the same as the most recent versions.

The long version:

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# apt-get install octave3.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libarpack2 libgraphicsmagick++3
Suggested packages:
graphicsmagick-dbg octave3.2-info octave3.2-doc octave3.2-htmldoc
octave3.2-headers octave3.2-emacsen
Recommended packages:
atlas3-base
The following NEW packages will be installed
libarpack2 libgraphicsmagick++3 octave3.2
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 31.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
0% [Working]CDROMMethod::Fetch cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-2 20091019-05:59]/pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb
Looking for CDROM at /dvd/
0% [Working]ID 2 a48ec91a27274fa236457889e78edfd7-2
ID 1 a48ec91a27274fa236457889e78edfd7-1
Media Change: Please insert the disc labelled
'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-2 20091019-05:59'
in the drive '/dvd/' and press enter

0% [Working]ID 2 a2d1cdec7388a76b1bf8b836022f0985-2
25% [Working]CDROMMethod::Fetch cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-2 20091019-05:59]/pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/libgraphicsmagick++3_1.3.5-5.1_i386.deb
Looking for CDROM at /dvd/
ID 2 a2d1cdec7388a76b1bf8b836022f0985-2
50% [Working]CDROMMethod::Fetch cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-3 20091019-05:59]/pool/main/o/octave3.2/octave3.2_3.2.3-1_i386.deb
Looking for CDROM at /dvd/
ID 2 a2d1cdec7388a76b1bf8b836022f0985-2
ID 1 e1d1f62209309b530c35e68b0260f989-1
Media Change: Please insert the disc labelled
'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binary-3 20091019-05:59'
in the drive '/dvd/' and press enter

50% [Working]ID 2 56355b1c0bb59ea95d7f5e086701c148-2
E: Could not open file /dvd//pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: Read error - read (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: Prior errors apply to /dvd//pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb
E: Could not open file /dvd//pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/libgraphicsmagick++3_1.3.5-5.1_i386.deb - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: Read error - read (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: Prior errors apply to /dvd//pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/libgraphicsmagick++3_1.3.5-5.1_i386.deb
E: Prior errors apply to /dvd//pool/main/o/octave3.2/octave3.2_3.2.3-1_i386.deb
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor
dpkg: error processing /dvd//pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb (--unpack):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /dvd//pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/libgraphicsmagick++3_1.3.5-5.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Selecting previously deselected package octave3.2.
(Reading database ... 242809 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking octave3.2 (from .../octave3.2_3.2.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/dvd//pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb
/dvd//pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/libgraphicsmagick++3_1.3.5-5.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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At the point above when the prompt to mount the first dvd,
gdb /usr/lib/apt/methods/cdrom PID
was started to attach to the cdrom process.
It reported no problems:
----------------------------------
gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program exited normally.
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# dpkg -s apt
Package: apt
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 10580
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity.DeleteThis@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.7.23.1
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So I guess that this means that I need to revert to earlier versions of
one of more of these programs if I am to catch the cdrom segfault.
But also that there is still a problem with accessing the /dvd files -
maybe somehow closed before dpkg runs. As I have noted before, if I manually
mount /dvd/ and run dpkg directly then it finds the files, so it isn't
dpkg itself failing, at least not in a simple way.

Are other people seeing this problem, or is it unusual to get files from
/dvd rather directly from the network?

I will update my machine back to current testing for the moment before
my dependencies get into a nasty twist!

ael




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