apt-cacher-ng segfaults randomly. There is nothing in the error log. The dmesg has this:

[18264080.296074] apt-cacher-ng[3929] general protection ip:7fbc56519f64 sp:7fbc50da7b50 error:0 in libpthread-2.11.3.so[7fbc56511000+17000]

I am using Debian Squeeze amd64, kernel 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64.

Hallo,
* James Bennet [Tue, Sep 10 2013, 03:47:17PM]:

Maybe you should update to Debian Stable?

Regards,
Eduard.

Hi,

Eduard Bloch wrote (10 Sep 2013 20:03:54 GMT) :

James: Squeeze is still supported for a few more months. However we,
as package maintainers, don't always have time to fix all more or less
important bugs in oldstable. It's sometimes hard to find an
appropriate balance of our efforts between supporting oldstable/stable
on the one hand, and working on the next version of Debian on the
other hand. In this specific case, perhaps you could try backporting
apt-cacher-ng from Wheezy for Squeeze. This might be the simplest way
to solve the software error you're facing.

Eduard: it's not the user's fault if we're shipping buggy software in
a Debian distribution that is still officially supported. Assuming the
user is otherwise happy with running oldstable for some reason,
suggesting a full OS upgrade to fix a bug in one single package seems
needlessly dismissive to me.

Take care,
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We have seen this happen on 2 or 3 boxes since my last reply, is a very annoying bug, and a problem, because these oldstable boxes are deployed as production servers and cannot easily be upgraded.  I will try backporting apt-cacher-ng and see if it helps.

Control: tags 722360 +moreinfo

Okay... intrigeri is right. But now we have an update in Stable and even
a newer version in various backport trees. :-)

Please try with an update and report the results.

https://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-cacher-ng.html

Regards,
Eduard.