[Bug 960525] Re: aptitude -d Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp - also consumes CPU power and takes a while to finish the operation after download

Tue Mar 20 19:12:31 UTC 2012

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Title:
  aptitude -d Failed to write temporary StateFile
  /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp - also consumes CPU power and takes a
  while to finish the operation after download

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If I use aptitude with the -d option it consumes a lot of CPU power and takes a while to finish
  (give me the prompt) after the download. Before aptitude give me back the prompt print the following
  error message:

  E: Failed to write temporary StateFile
  /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

  Until today I haven't encountered with this phenomenon. So aptitude with the -d option worked well
  when Ubuntu 12.04 Beta1 released.

  Without the -d option everything is just fine.

  I've created a strace output with the following way:

  root at penge:~# strace -o aptitude.strace aptitude -d install vim
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    vim vim-runtime{a}
  0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 6,872 kB of archives. After unpacking 24.8 MB will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
  Get: 1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main vim-runtime all 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2 [5,893 kB]
  Get: 2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main vim i386 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2 [979 kB]
  Fetched 6,872 kB in 11s (610 kB/s)
  E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

  I will try to upload the strace file later (48M without compression).

  Here's a typical top output when aptitude -d run after the donwload
  has been finished:

  top - 19:59:06 up 14 min,  3 users,  load average: 1.69, 1.82, 1.05
  Tasks: 153 total,   3 running, 150 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
  Cpu(s): 57.1%us, 13.8%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 23.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  5.8%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   1024800k total,   788808k used,   235992k free,    21360k buffers
  Swap:  1046524k total,    58424k used,   988100k free,   245972k cached

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
   2527 root      20   0 59552  22m 9.8m S 47.7  2.3   3:15.38 aptitude
   2654 test      20   0  425m 344m  70m S 13.9 34.5   1:20.56 oneconf-service
   2526 root      20   0  2384  720  624 S  1.7  0.1   0:11.85 strace
   2084 test      20   0 90956  11m 5728 S  1.0  1.1   0:06.74 gnome-terminal
   2153 test      20   0 54616 7764 4780 S  0.7  0.8   0:03.84 update-notifier
  12259 root      20   0  8776 4436  732 R  0.7  0.4   0:00.02 dpkg
  12261 root      20   0  8120 3876 1916 R  0.7  0.4   0:00.02 dpkg-preconfigu
      7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:02.01 watchdog/0
     20 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:03.86 kworker/0:1
     40 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:01.36 kworker/u:3
   1045 root      20   0  102m  54m 9184 S  0.3  5.4   0:10.33 Xorg
   1781 test      20   0 20512 1428 1428 S  0.3  0.1   0:02.72 gvfs-afc-volume
  12103 root      20   0  2832 1160  872 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.02 top
      1 root      20   0  3504 1312 1020 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.38 init
      2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

  The aptitude process state not always "S" it's sometimes "R".

  Please fix this problem! If you need more details I'm glad to help
  you.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: aptitude 0.6.5-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic-pae 3.2.11
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Mar 20 20:05:51 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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