xbps-install gets stuck on verifying RSA signature
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
Research direction
Start by reproducing the stall with xbps-install -Syu or several packages on a musl-based installation using the official repository, then trace the RSA signature-verification path in the xbps-install code. Compare single-package and multi-package runs and check whether cancelling and retrying changes the behavior. Done means multi-package installs complete without hanging during verification.
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Description
It gets stuck forever. I've personally waited for 10 minutes. Sometimes it shows "stalled", sometimes it doesn't.
This occurs with every ~10th package when downloading several packages along, whether I specify multiple ones to install or I'm doing xbps-install -Syu. Did not see it happen on installing a single package (with dependencies). Killing the process with ctrl+c and then re-issuing the command makes the process continue from whete it stopped and work fine until it processes the next 10 or 20 packages and gets stuck again.
Additional info: Using the official repo. Base installation with musl. XBPS was up to date as of June 30.
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
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- Forks
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- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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