aptitude update crashes

Hi all,

when I try to get an update, I get the following error message:

Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[62.0kB]
Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
[124kB]
E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.

Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big.

My cachelimit is set to

APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";

which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no
effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?

Best regards

Hans


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[ael-3]

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when I try to get an update, I get the following error message:

> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.

This bug happens here as well on i386 boxes, so is not amd64 specific.
I suspect this is connected with bug #549312.

Use reportbug maybe as a new bug but maybe mention possible connection
with 549312.

ael


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[Jochen Schulz-2]

Hans-J. Ullrich:
>
> Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [62.0kB]
> Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [124kB]
> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.

I had the same problem this morning. Changing my sources.list to
ftp2.de.debian.org instead of ftp.de.debian.org fixed it.

> Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?

It appears that way, yes.

J.
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Working again! I do not know what happened. maybe the database crashed
somehow. I fixed it by uncommenting the entries of testing and unstable.

An aptitude update worked, then addes stepwise testing and unstable, which the
worked again.

Weired anyway! So just forget about this mail.


Cheers

Hans


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[Alexis de BRUYN]

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Hi Hans,

Try :
{{{
sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
sudo apt-get upgrade
}}}

This solved this issue for me this morning.

Best regards,

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when I try to get an update, I get the following error message:
>
> Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [62.0kB]
> Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [124kB]
> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
>
> Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big.
>
> My cachelimit is set to
>
> APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
>
> which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no
> effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>
>

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[ael-3]

Jochen Schulz wrote:

>> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
>> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
>
> I had the same problem this morning. Changing my sources.list to
> ftp2.de.debian.org instead of ftp.de.debian.org fixed it.
>
>> Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?
>
> It appears that way, yes.

But a segfault is still a bug & needs reporting. In passing, I am using
different uk http mirrors & still have the problem.

ael


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[Alexis de BRUYN]

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> But a segfault is still a bug & needs reporting. In passing, I am using
> different uk http mirrors & still have the problem.

Already done : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554349



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[Jan De Luyck-14]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:38:01 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when I try to get an update, I get the following error message:
>
> Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [62.0kB]
> Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [124kB]
> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
>
> Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big.
>
> My cachelimit is set to
>
> APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
>
> which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no
> effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>

Yes, there's a pdiff file corrupt. A simple workaround is to tell apt/aptitude
to get the full files, not the pdiffs, for this one time:

aptitude update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false

Kind regards

Jan


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