2689 2012-07-04 02:58:20 +0000 apt-native 0.7.14: Method file has died unexpectedly when run (tmpdir length) 2012-07-19 08:08:47 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain 1.3 x86 Multiple VERIFIED FIXED (P2) (QA Testing Completed)(Done) Medium normal 1.3 M4 2434 1 liezhi.yang liezhi.yang jessica.zhang liang.li2 meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher sgw song.liu zhenfeng.zhao --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 22771 0 liezhi.yang 2012-07-04 02:58:20 +0000 When the length of the tmpdir is longer than 400, there is an error when run "apt-get update": Method file has died unexpectedly! This is caused by the following code in apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc: // AcqMethod::URIStart - Indicate a download is starting /*{{{*/ // --------------------------------------------------------------------- /* */ void pkgAcqMethod::URIStart(FetchResult &Res) { if (Queue == 0) abort(); char S[1024] = ""; char *End = S; End += snprintf(S,sizeof(S),"200 URI Start\nURI: %s\n",Queue->Uri.c_str()); if (Res.Size != 0) End += snprintf(End,sizeof(S)-4 - (End - S),"Size: %lu\n",Res.Size); if (Res.LastModified != 0) End += snprintf(End,sizeof(S)-4 - (End - S),"Last-Modified: %s\n", TimeRFC1123(Res.LastModified).c_str()); if (Res.ResumePoint != 0) End += snprintf(End,sizeof(S)-4 - (End - S),"Resume-Point: %lu\n", Res.ResumePoint); strcat(End,"\n"); if (write(STDOUT_FILENO,S,strlen(S)) != (signed)strlen(S)) exit(100); } The S[1024] is not enough when the tmpdir is very long, assign a bigger value would fix the problem, for example, 2048. 22921 1 liezhi.yang 2012-07-10 01:55:31 +0000 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=12c8d9d4512cd9159ba862a4f7cf8608d4b57e65 23243 2 liang.li2 2012-07-19 08:04:24 +0000 the build dir is "/home/yocto/test_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto/test_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto_yocto" ,which length equals 400. run "bitbake core-image-minimal", no error during build. 23245 3 liang.li2 2012-07-19 08:08:47 +0000 test env : host :Fedora 17 x86_64 git info : eb0cb7e8234f5d2e5623406e9660be91cf52f65e git branch: poky/master