Package Installation Failures

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:24:53AM +0930, IKT wrote:
> Do you have an example bug which contains this error?

There are hundreds tagged fsys-tarfile-error already but how about
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/809059.

> Is it all "returned error exit status 2" bugs?

No, it is ones where the command "dpkg-deb" with the argument
"--fsys-tarfile" returned error exit status 2.

Brian
> - ikt
> 
> On 14 July 2011 08:20, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:42:49PM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> > > On 07/13/2011 05:04 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> > > > I very recently updated apt to prevent the filing of package
> > > > installation failures when the following appears in the error message:
> > > >
> > > > --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> > > >
> > > > This can occur for a variety of reasons, the system is out of memory,
> > > > the memory is bad or there is file system corruption.  Regardless, none
> > > > of these are an issue with the package trying to being installed hence
> > > > the blocking of reporting further ones.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried to clean up most of the already reported ones in Launchpad
> > > > but keep running across some!  If you happen to see one please close
> > the
> > > > bug as Invalid, tag them as fsys-tarfile-error and add a comment
> > > > similar to the following:
> > > >
> > > > "Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> > > > Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when
> > > > trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following
> > > > command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:
> > > >
> > > > sudo apt-get clean
> > > >
> > > > Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your
> > > > issue, but the failure can be caused by filesystem or memory
> > corruption.
> > > > So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test.
> > >
> > > This last piece should be disregarded, since we are asking for the
> > > bug to be set to invalid.
> >
> > Ah you caught me!  I actually really should have said to set the status
> > to Incomplete and not Invalid.  I feel its a nicer experience this way
> > if the Janitor expires the bug than us setting it to Invalid.
> >
> > --
> > Brian Murray
> > Ubuntu Bug Master
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