[Mageia-dev] Our BS is about to eat packages?

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 13:47 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 08:02 +0200, D.Morgan a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > It looks like our BS is becoming hungry to eat built packages:
> > > > Submitted       User    Package Target  Media   Status  Build time
> > > > 18 hours ago    wally   libcanberra-0.28-3.mga2 cauldron        core/release            uploaded        15215
> > > > days
> > > > 23 hours ago    fwang   gnome-python-extras-2.25.3-27.mga2      cauldron        core/release            uploaded        15215
> > > > days
> > > > 1 day ago       fwang   libnotify-0.7.4-1.mga2  cauldron        core/release            partial
> > > >
> > > > Could somebody give a look at the issue? And I think BS is much slower
> > > > than the past. In the past, most packages were built succesfully
> > > > within less than 5 minutes, but now > 10 minutes.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I don't recall seeing such issues on the BS before maybe misc can have an idea
> > > and, we only have one node for the moment ( ecosse is disabled ) this
> > > explain why it is slower.
> > 
> > After looking at the problem, I suspect it could be linked to texmf.
> > Each time iurt install it, the process stop.  
> > 
> > Yet, I have no more idea, and couldn't investigate further for now.
> 
> Boklm found the problem, it was urpmi segfaulting.
> 
> We remove the chroot, and thing seems to be ok now again.

But we probably still have the problem, as segfaults seems to be
happenning not all the time.

After succesfully reproducing the error using the old chroot and running
urpmi several times, the backtrace :

#0  0xf7405b29 in _int_malloc () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0xf7408177 in malloc () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2  0xf6eadfa8 in __os_malloc (env=0xb442db8, size=4149199776, storep=0xffbbf5cc) at ../os/os_alloc.c:253
#3  0xf6eac47c in __memp_sync_int (env=0xb442db8, dbmfp=0xb893130, trickle_max=0, flags=8, wrote_totalp=0x0, interruptedp=0x0)
    at ../mp/mp_sync.c:294
#4  0xf6eacfaf in __memp_fsync (dbmfp=0xb893130) at ../mp/mp_sync.c:202
#5  0xf6e3cdf9 in __db_sync (dbp=0xb8963e8) at ../db/db_am.c:706
#6  0xf6e3aa68 in __db_refresh (dbp=0xb8963e8, txn=0x0, flags=0, deferred_closep=0xffbbf6fc, reuse=0) at ../db/db.c:819
#7  0xf6e3adc5 in __db_close (dbp=0xb8963e8, txn=0x0, flags=0) at ../db/db.c:695
#8  0xf6e52a38 in __db_close_pp (dbp=0xb8963e8, flags=0) at ../db/db_iface.c:253
#9  0xf72fec45 in db3close (dbi=0xb893030, flags=0) at backend/db3.c:494
#10 0xf73071c6 in dbiClose (db=0xb2b6950) at ../lib/rpmdb_internal.h:453
#11 rpmdbClose (db=0xb2b6950) at rpmdb.c:852
#12 0xf73379d6 in rpmtsCloseDB (ts=0xb231b20) at rpmts.c:64
#13 0xf7337a48 in rpmtsFree (ts=0xb231b20) at rpmts.c:567
#14 0xf736c7a1 in XS_URPM__DB_DESTROY (my_perl=0x8d42008, cv=0x8e2d420) at URPM.xs:2794
#15 0xf765867d in Perl_pp_entersub (my_perl=0x8d42008) at pp_hot.c:3046
#16 0xf75e1a0e in Perl_call_sv (my_perl=0x8d42008, sv=0x8e2d420, flags=45) at perl.c:2647
#17 0xf765f21c in S_curse (my_perl=0x8d42008, orig_sv=0xb009b48) at sv.c:6346
#18 Perl_sv_clear (my_perl=0x8d42008, orig_sv=0xb009b48) at sv.c:6077
#19 0xf765fa3a in Perl_sv_free2 (my_perl=0x8d42008, sv=0xb009b48) at sv.c:6478
#20 0xf760c46c in Perl_cv_undef (my_perl=0x8d42008, cv=0xb09a140) at pad.c:381
#21 0xf765f604 in Perl_sv_clear (my_perl=0x8d42008, orig_sv=0xb13c088) at sv.c:6118
#22 0xf765fa3a in Perl_sv_free2 (my_perl=0x8d42008, sv=0xb13c088) at sv.c:6478
#23 0xf76477bc in Perl_hv_free_ent (my_perl=0x8d42008, hv=0x93f01f8, entry=0xb0313c8) at hv.c:1486
#24 0xf7647aa4 in S_hfreeentries (my_perl=0x8d42008, hv=0x93f01f8) at hv.c:1803
#25 0xf764c09b in Perl_hv_clear (my_perl=0x8d42008, hv=0x93f01f8) at hv.c:1559
#26 0xf76893e5 in Perl_leave_scope (my_perl=0x8d42008, base=79) at scope.c:911
#27 0xf7689463 in Perl_pop_scope (my_perl=0x8d42008) at scope.c:110
#28 0xf7656c28 in Perl_pp_leavesub (my_perl=0x8d42008) at pp_hot.c:2626
#29 0xf764f078 in Perl_runops_standard (my_perl=0x8d42008) at run.c:41
#30 0xf75e7e59 in S_run_body (my_perl=0x8d42008) at perl.c:2345
#31 perl_run (my_perl=0x8d42008) at perl.c:2268
#32 0x08048c0e in main (argc=4, argv=0xffbbff94, env=0xffbbffa8) at perlmain.c:120