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and subject line Re: Bug#502202: dpkg: crashes if $PATH contains unreachable
nfs directory
has caused the Debian Bug report #502202,
regarding dpkg: crashes if $PATH contains unreachable nfs directory
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.16.6ubuntu4
Severity: normal
Running 'dpkg -l' gives the following if $PATH contains an unreachable
NFS-mounted directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l
dpkg: failed to exec dpkg-query: Input/output error
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
removing that directory from $PATH fixes the problem.
I assume this is caused by dpkg looking for something in any directory
in $PATH and not skipping unaccessible ones.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-server (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 6.10-3ubuntu2 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lzma 4.43-12ubuntu1 Compression method of 7z format in
dpkg recommends no packages.
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-10-14 15:35 +0200, Daniel Abel wrote:
>
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.14.16.6ubuntu4
> > Severity: normal
>
> Please report Ubuntu bugs in Launchpad, not in the Debian BTS.
Or explain why it's also relevant for Debian. In this case, it seems
obvious though.
> > Running 'dpkg -l' gives the following if $PATH contains an unreachable
> > NFS-mounted directory:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l
> > dpkg: failed to exec dpkg-query: Input/output error
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> >
> > removing that directory from $PATH fixes the problem.
> >
> > I assume this is caused by dpkg looking for something in any directory
> > in $PATH and not skipping unaccessible ones.
>
> It is the glibc's execvp() function that performs this search and fails,
> there is nothing dpkg can do about that. See exec(3).
So closing that bug as there's not much to do and it's always best for
dpkg to fail when a system call fails.
Cheers,
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