On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Paul Dickson wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:18:43 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:the bug wasn't seen prior to 2.6.19 so I doubt what you see is related to it...In the note about 2.6.20-rc2 says its been there since at least 2.6.18.3.
Yup, and it certainly affects at least apt-rpm in current Fedora 5 & 6 kernels. I've seen a bunch of crash reports (and managed to reproduce it a few times myself) which all are caused by zeroes in apt's cachefile where data is expected...
In the cases I managed to reproduce it, no rpmdb corruption was present, just apt's own cachefile. But as rpm uses mmap it's at least *possible* some of the rpm issues people see in FC6 are caused by it.
- Panu -