Bug#576810: Perlindex cron job never finishes

Davide Prina davide.prina at gmail.com
Mon May 17 19:01:35 UTC 2010 

Package: perlindex
Version: 1.605-2
Severity: important

today after the upgrade of Squeeze I have a perlindex process using 99% 
of one CPU and never finish his job.

# lsof | grep perlindex
perlindex 25210        root  cwd       DIR                8,2      4096 
          2 /
perlindex 25210        root  rtd       DIR                8,2      4096 
          2 /
perlindex 25210        root  txt       REG                8,2    103048 
   10330221 /bin/dash
perlindex 25210        root  mem       REG                8,2   1379752 
    1073926 /lib/libc-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25210        root  mem       REG                8,2    123488 
    1073902 /lib/ld-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25210        root    0r      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25210        root    1w      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25210        root    2w      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25210        root    3r      DIR                8,2      4096 
          2 /
perlindex 25210        root   10r      REG                8,2       139 
    1255755 /etc/cron.daily/perlindex
perlindex 25210        root   11w     FIFO                0,8       0t0 
     186893 pipe
perlindex 25210        root   12w     FIFO                0,8       0t0 
     186894 pipe
perlindex 25211        root  cwd       DIR                8,2      4096 
    6972286 /usr/share/perl5
perlindex 25211        root  rtd       DIR                8,2      4096 
          2 /
perlindex 25211        root  txt       REG                8,2      6928 
    6974189 /usr/bin/perl
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     37728 
    4005901 /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/auto/List/Util/Util.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     12672 
    7643774 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     19920 
    4022275 /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/auto/IO/IO.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2   1501800 
    6974345 /usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     57936 
    3014657 /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     18120 
    3915777 /usr/lib/perl/5.10.1/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     35104 
    1073908 /lib/libcrypt-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2   1379752 
    1073926 /lib/libc-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2    130841 
    1073936 /lib/libpthread-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2    530728 
    1073934 /lib/libm-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2     14696 
    1073938 /lib/libdl-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2   1491944 
    3055622 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10.1
perlindex 25211        root  mem       REG                8,2    123488 
    1073902 /lib/ld-2.10.2.so
perlindex 25211        root    0r      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25211        root    1w      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25211        root    2w      CHR                1,3       0t0 
       1429 /dev/null
perlindex 25211        root    3r      DIR                8,2      4096 
          2 /
perlindex 25211        root    4r      REG                8,2     20066 
    2719997 /usr/bin/perlindex
perlindex 25211        root    5u      REG                8,2  13070336 
    2899969 /usr/share/man/index_if
perlindex 25211        root    6u      REG                8,2   2633728 
    2899970 /usr/share/man/index_idf
perlindex 25211        root    7u      REG                8,2    331776 
    2899971 /usr/share/man/index_seen
perlindex 25211        root    8u      REG                8,2    344064 
    2899972 /usr/share/man/index_fn
perlindex 25211        root    9r      REG                8,2       148 
    1261789 /etc/perlindex/config


Today I have upgrade/installed the following packages:
# grep 2010-05-17 /var/log/dpkg.log | grep " installed" |cut -d ' ' -f 5
doc-base
hicolor-icon-theme
man-db
shared-mime-info
gnome-menus
desktop-file-utils
menu
c++-annotations-contrib
c++-annotations-html
gnome-games-extra-data
libcanberra0
libcanberra-gtk0
gnome-session-canberra
kdebase-runtime-data
kdegames-mahjongg-data
libcanberra-gtk-module
libieee1284-3
libnet-dbus-perl
libwww-perl
xbl
menu
man-db
gnome-menus
desktop-file-utils
hicolor-icon-theme
shared-mime-info
menu
libattica0
libkdecore5
libkdeui5
libsolid4
libkio5
libkparts4
libkpty4
libkde3support4
libkdesu5
libkdnssd4
libkfile4
libkjsapi4
libktexteditor4
libkhtml5
libkmediaplayer4
libknewstuff2-4
libknewstuff3-4
libknotifyconfig4
libkutils4
libnepomuk4
libnepomukquery4a
libssh-4
libkjsembed4
libkntlm4
libkrosscore4
libpolkit-qt-1-0
kdoctools
kdelibs-bin
kdelibs5-data
kdelibs5-plugins
shared-desktop-ontologies
libthreadweaver4
libplasma3
plasma-scriptengine-javascript
kdebase-runtime
libkdegames5
kblackbox
libkimproxy4
libkrossui4
kdelibs5
kgoldrunner
kmahjongg
konquest
kshisen
ksirk
ksudoku
libkcddb4
palapeli-data
palapeli
menu

Let me know if I can give you more information.

Ciao
Davide

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perlindex depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration 
management sy
ii  libterm-readkey-perl          2.30-4     A perl module for simple 
terminal
ii  libtext-english-perl          1.605-2    Perl module implementing 
the Porte
ii  perl                          5.10.1-12  Larry Wall's Practical 
Extraction

Versions of packages perlindex recommends:
ii  libio-stringy-perl            2.110-4    Perl modules for IO from 
scalars a

perlindex suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* perlindex/removeindexonpurge: true

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