dpkg loops forever

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 30 October 2009 03:27, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using busybox 1.8.1.

Did you try something newer?

> dpkg is observed to loop in unpack_ar_archive() call. On looking further the loop which gets hit is in get_header_ar(): 
> 
> if (archive_handle->sub_archive) {
>    while (archieve_handle->action_data_subarchive(archive_handle->sub_archive) == EXIT_SUCESS)
>    /*repeat*/;
> } else {
> }
> 
> Has anyone seen this issue before? 


I did not. Can you post the file this happens with,
and with which command exactly?

Can you post a "strace -oLOG -f <command> <params>" log?

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