[Piuparts-devel] Bug#826893: piuparts aborts with "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded"

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-06-09 23:00, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:

>      piuparts -d unstable --single-changes-list --lvm-volume /dev/wd/sid-chroot ../freetuxtv_0.6.8\~dfsg1-1_amd64.changes

I never used (nor tested) the -lvm* options ...

> causes piuparts to enter an infinite loop and abort with:
> 
>     RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
> 
> This happens after a long string of errors like the following:
> 
>       dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/freetuxtv_0.6.6~dfsg1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>        unable to sync file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci//md5sums': Input/output error
>       Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-11) ...
>       dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>        unable to fsync updated status of 'libc-bin': Input/output error
>       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
>     2m15.5s DEBUG: Starting command: ['umount', '/tmp/tmpm8VEae/dev/shm']
>     2m15.5s DUMP:
>       umount: /tmp/tmpm8VEae/dev/shm: mountpoint not found
>     2m15.5s DEBUG: Command failed (status=32), but ignoring error: ['umount', '/tmp/tmpm8VEae/dev/shm']

My gut feeling says that this is unrelated to piuparts and you have some
problem with your disk or lvm or the chroot. piuparts just puts a lot of
stress on these.


Andreas