Bug#498592: I got one of these yesterday from aptitude

Gordon Haverland ghaverla at materialisations.com
Thu Oct 16 12:43:46 UTC 2008


I've been getting this series of messages in the logs every once 
in a while.  This morning, the program mentioned is aptitude.  
Three days ago, it was dialog.  A month ago, there were a bunch 
from dialog, and a few from w3m.  W3m is linked against libgpm2, 
the others aren't.  I've seen messages of this flavour (info, 
info, err, I die) going back more than 1 year.

For some reason which I can't justify, I've thought it was acpid 
running out of file descriptors, and so I would restart the acpid 
daemon when I got one of these messages.  Looking through the bug 
reports of acpid, I don't see anything remotely like this.  I 
could easily be wrong about what causes these sets of 6 message 
lines in the logs.

But the name of the program varies.  On my computer, the program 
which most often shows up is dialog.  I haven't been running 
dialog based programs much in the last while, since TUI screens 
aren't being written to properly by dialog (they seem to work 
fine in xterms and such).  Sorry, I haven't filed a bug report 
against dialog on the screen behavior.

Okay, I just ran orphaner on tty1, it uses dialog.  That triplet 
of messages showed up in the log.

I'm inclined to think this could have something to do with long 
uptimes.  It has been more than 270 days since I last did a 
reboot, but I have done lots of package upgrades.

But, if you have any ideas on tracking this down, I can do it 
reproducibly with any dialog based program, and maybe some 
others.

Gord





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