#1151943 popcon.php: broken graph generation and/or display

#1151943#5
Date:
2026-10-24 21:37:40 UTC
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Hello,

Popcon's graph generation and/or display has been broken for a couple
of weeks now.  See attached screenshot for an example, generated just
now.

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Regards,
Nicholas

#1151943#10
Date:
2026-10-25 09:26:43 UTC
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Screenshot is missing, but ... I had a chat on IRC some days ago
(2026-10-08):
[18:12:17] <elbrus> it seems like
https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon-png is broken; I get "cannot be
displayed because it contains errors"
[18:16:44] <elbrus> over on #d-devel we also chatted a bit
[18:17:13] <elbrus> XXXX found this: <pre>open2: fork failed: Resource
temporarily unavailable at /srv/qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon-png line 181.
[18:17:38] <elbrus> I looked up the script, it's this line: my $pid =
open2(\*CHLD_OUT, \*CHLD_IN, 'gnuplot', '-');

It turned out it happened before and that restarting Apache sometimes
"fixes" that, as it did on 8 October.

Paul