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** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  apt-get fails on lucid i386 with large filesystem (statvfs (75: Value
  too large for defined data type))

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Using Lucid-i386, apt version:
  ii  apt                    0.7.25.3ubuntu7        Advanced front-end for dpkg

  Attempting to get a package:
  # apt-get install sudo                                             
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    sudo
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 312kB of archives.
  After this operation, 602kB of additional disk space will be used.
  W: Couldn't determine free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ - statvfs (75: Value too large for defined data type)
  E: Handler silently failed

  This bug has been reported and fixed in Debian:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590513

  Reply to this bug report is reproduced here for convenience:

  On Mo, 2010-07-26 at 15:23 -0700, David Bronaugh wrote:
  > Package: apt
  > Version: 0.7.25.3
  > 
  > When I try to install a package inside an i386 chroot on this machine
  > (which resides on a 20TB XFS filesystem), it fails to even get to
  > downloading the package with the following error messages:
  > 
  > root@windy:~# apt-get install tinywm
  > Reading package lists... Done
  > Building dependency tree       
  > Reading state information... Done
  > The following extra packages will be installed:
  >   libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6
  > The following NEW packages will be installed:
  >   libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 tinywm
  > 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
  > Need to get 1131kB of archives.
  > After this operation, 4346kB of additional disk space will be used.
  > W: Couldn't determine free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ - statvfs
  > (75: Value too large for defined data type)
  > E: Handler silently failed
  > root@windy:~#
  > 
  > It seems like this is likely a result of integer overflow in the data
  > structure that statvfs returns. Therefore, it would seem the path
  > forward is to use statvfs64().

  Fixed in bzr:

  === modified file 'cmdline/apt-get.cc'
  --- cmdline/apt-get.cc	2010-07-05 09:34:35 +0000
  +++ cmdline/apt-get.cc	2010-07-27 11:21:03 +0000
  @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
      ##################################################################### */
   									/*}}}*/
   // Include Files							/*{{{*/
  +#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
  +#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
  +
   #include <apt-pkg/error.h>
   #include <apt-pkg/cmndline.h>
   #include <apt-pkg/init.h>
  @@ -63,6 +66,9 @@
   #include <regex.h>
   #include <sys/wait.h>
   #include <sstream>
  +
  +#define statfs statfs64
  +#define statvfs statvfs64
   									/*}}}*/
   
   #define RAMFS_MAGIC     0x858458f6

  === modified file 'debian/changelog'
  --- debian/changelog	2010-07-23 14:13:15 +0000
  +++ debian/changelog	2010-07-27 11:27:18 +0000
  @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ apt (0.7.26~exp11) experimental; urgency
       - Add to history whether a change was automatic or not.
     * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc:
       - Add FileFd::OpenDescriptor() (needed for python-apt's #383617).
  +  * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
  +    - Support large filesystems by using statvfs64() instead of statvfs()
  +      and statfs64() instead of statfs() (Closes: #590513).
   
    -- Julian Andres Klode <jak@xxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:09:11 +0200

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