Last week I had several cases of corruption in dpkg database (status and
available files). These happened with different 2.6.17-rc3 + git kernels, the
last tested kernel was 2.6.17-rc3-ge515f048 from May 9. Then I booted up
Debian default kernels (2.6.16-1-sparc64) and it seems to work just fine, no
corruption so far.
I suspected both dpkg and kernel but this seems to point finger to the side
of kernel.
Some further testing has narrowed it down to
2.6.17-rc1-g676165a8 probably OK (debian apt-get upgrade succeeded)
2.6.17-rc2 bad (first package broke dpkg status file)
There were 2 consecutive overwritten pieces in status file (sometimes
there are more). Both wer inside the Description: filed (and most
changes have usually been, not sure about 100%). The remaining data is
not shifted, just overwritten.
File offsets of the overwritten data are 0x7DE18-0x7DE36
and 0x7DED7-0x7DF36. Not aligned at the beginning and not the same size.
--
Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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