dpkg loops forever

[Jaspreet Singh]

patching files to busybox 1.8.3 fixes the issue.

Thanks,
Jaspreet

--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: dpkg loops forever
> To: busybox at busybox.net
> Cc: "Jaspreet Singh" <jaspreet_sachdev at yahoo.com>
> Received: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 3:06 AM
> 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?
> 
> --
> vda
> 


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