[Popcon-developers] Bug#316254: popularity-contest: does not work with too many packages

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.29
Severity: normal


Hi,

here is the problem:

# /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest
tee: standard output: Broken pipe
tee: write error

I use popularity-contest on several other systems with no problem.  My
guess is that this system has too many packages installed:

$ dpkg -l |wc
   8354   72879  937049


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.51     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.13.10    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]  2.61-3     extremely simple MTA to get mail o

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-87  management of regular background p

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro:
  popularity-contest/hostid-failed:
* popularity-contest/update-mailto: true