Bug#604902: AW: Bug#604902: apt-cacher: random segfaults in libperl when clients are accessing cache

[Schoepflin, Markus]

Mark Hindley wrote:

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> This must be a problem in the perl engine somewhere rather than
> apt-cacher itself. I notice you are using CGI mode which could also
> point to the apache perl module as well. A perl script, like
> apt-cacher, shouldn't be able to crash the perl engine.

Agreed.

> Have you upgraded perl/apache recently? Is your system up to date?

We started using apt-cacher only recently, but had the problems since
we started using it. The system itself is automatically updated each
night.

> I would recommend you switch to daemon mode which will give you better
> apt-cacher performance and will also exclude any apache module
> problems.

Will do.

> As far as the actual problem goes, I think you will need to install
> perl-debug to get the symbols and then run the whole thing under gdb.

Actually I have perl-debug installed, the symbols for libperl are
there.

> I am going to reassign this to libperl5.10.

Thanks,
Markus