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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