apt stopped working on my qnap ts-209

[Mathias Waack-2]

Hi,

since a few days I cannot use apt-get to install/upgrade packages:

nas:~# apt-get update
E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly
E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly

nas:~# /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The core dump is not very informative:

nas:~# gdb /usr/lib/apt/methods/http core
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabi"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6...(no debugging
symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libutil.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.3
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/apt/methods/http'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 21986]
#0  0x40d01f78 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x40d01f78 in ?? ()
#1  0x401b6ebc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Cannot access memory at address 0xd3ee4

I've tried checking apt and /usr/lib/apt/methods/http with strace with the
funny result, that it works in this case:

nas:~# strace /usr/lib/apt/methods/http                                                
execve("/usr/lib/apt/methods/http", ["/usr/lib/apt/methods/http"], [/* 16 vars
*/]) = 0
...
write(1, "100 Capabilities\nVersion: 1.2\nPip"..., 64100 Capabilities
Version: 1.2
Pipeline: true
Send-Config: true

) = 64
fcntl64(0, F_GETFL)                     = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xa738, [TERM], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) =
0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0xa738, [INT], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, NULL^C <unfinished ...>

or with apt-get:

nas:~#  strace -f apt-get update 2>/dev/null
Ign http://people.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
Ign http://people.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
...
Fetched 2261B in 5s (449B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

I consider this a very special kind of humour. Is there anything I can do to
solve this issue?

Thanks

        Mathias


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[Federico Briata-3]

2009/10/18 Mathias Waack <M.Waack@...>:

> Hi,
>
> since a few days I cannot use apt-get to install/upgrade packages:
>
> nas:~# apt-get update
> E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
> E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly
> E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
> E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly
> E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
> E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
> E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
> E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
>
> nas:~# /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> The core dump is not very informative:
>
> nas:~# gdb /usr/lib/apt/methods/http core

> Core was generated by `/usr/lib/apt/methods/http'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> [New process 21986]
> #0  0x40d01f78 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x40d01f78 in ?? ()
> #1  0x401b6ebc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> Cannot access memory at address 0xd3ee4
>
> I've tried checking apt and /usr/lib/apt/methods/http with strace with the
> funny result, that it works in this case:
>

> or with apt-get:
>
> nas:~#  strace -f apt-get update 2>/dev/null
> Ign http://people.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
> Ign http://people.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
> ...
> Fetched 2261B in 5s (449B/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> I consider this a very special kind of humour. Is there anything I can do to
> solve this issue?

Hi, maybe you loose some dependence.
Try to update with aptitude instead apt-get

federico


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[Mathias Waack-2]

Hi Frederico,

On Sunday 18 October 2009, Federico Briata wrote:

> > nas:~#  strace -f apt-get update 2>/dev/null
> > Ign http://people.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
> > Ign http://people.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
> > ...
> > Fetched 2261B in 5s (449B/s)
> > Reading package lists... Done
> >
> > I consider this a very special kind of humour. Is there anything I can do
> > to solve this issue?
>
> Hi, maybe you loose some dependence.
> Try to update with aptitude instead apt-get

Thanks for this hint.

After installing a new kernel (2.6.30-2-orion5x) apt-get runs smooth again.

Mathias


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