Bug#396944: exim4 giving me problems again (#396944)

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:46:36AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Mon January 22 2007 01:01, you wrote:
> > Otherwise, I am kind of stumped as you seem to be the only one
> > experiencing this and this is only a "heisenbug".
> 
> races can look like this...

Yes, but they're also awfully hard to debug.

>  /usr is an NFS mount, as is /var/cache apt/archives, and dselect (in
>  addition to KDE and probably a torrent) would be running off the same
>  drive on the box which exports both (a 350MHz, P3, 128M RAM, over a
>  100Mbps LAN)

But your box has its own /var/cache/apt/archives and /usr? And
/var/run and /var/lib are local?

> The only thing I can think of which is likely to get at this bug would 
> be a series of packages designed to troubleshoot the upgrade process. 
> If you were to design such a package, put it in an apt-gettable 
> archive, then give it a new version number every day (simply mv-ing 
> the .deb), I would be able to do a realistic "upgrade" every day.

Sorry, I don't see that I'll have time to do this in the foreseeable
future.

Greetings
Marc

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