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and subject line Bug#1063405: fixed in sensible-utils 0.0.23
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regarding sensible-utils: error "realpath: '': No such file or directory" /
possible recursive loop
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Package: sensible-utils
Version: 0.0.22
Severity: normal
After the upgrade to 0.0.22, I'm getting the following error with
sensible-pager:
realpath: '': No such file or directory
(the other sensible-* utilities are likely to have the same issue
since the related code is very similar).
This is due to
# Prevent recursive loops, where environment variables are set to this
script
[ x$(realpath "$(command -v "$candidate" || true)" || true) = x"$program" ]
&& return
where $candidate is a command with arguments. For instance,
I have PAGER="less -Lis". Hence the issue.
The full string for "command -v" is expected to be the executable name
(without arguments). So the executable is not found, and "command -v"
fails without any output, so that realpath outputs an error to stderr
for this reason.
There is the same issue when the command doesn't exist:
cventin:~> PAGER=foo sensible-pager
realpath: '': No such file or directory
PAGER: 1: foo: not found
Missing filename ("less --help" for help)
In any case, the "realpath: '': No such file or directory" just
concerns internals and should be hidden from the user.
The problem is actually worse than the error message as there can
be a loop:
cventin:~> PAGER="sensible-pager " sensible-pager
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
realpath: '': No such file or directory
[...]
So I suggest 2 fixes:
1. In the candidate, take only everything until the first space,
i.e. use "${candidate%% *}" instead of "$candidate".
2. Redirect the realpath standard error to /dev/null in order to
avoid the error message when the executable is not found.
This gives:
# Prevent recursive loops, where environment variables are set to this
script
[ x$(realpath "$(command -v "${candidate%% *}" || true)" 2> /dev/null ||
true) = x"$program" ] && return
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: sensible-utils
Source-Version: 0.0.23
Done: Bastien Roucariès <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sensible-utils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Bastien Roucariès <[email protected]> (supplier of updated sensible-utils
package)
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:44:53 +0000
Source: sensible-utils
Architecture: source
Version: 0.0.23
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastien Roucariès <[email protected]>
Closes: 1063405 1063481 1063482
Changes:
sensible-utils (0.0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Bug fix: "error realpath: No such file or
directory; / possible recursive loop", thanks to Vincent Lefevre
(Closes: #1063405).
* Bug fix: "Errors in man page" thanks to Helge Kreutzmann (Closes:
#1063482).
* Bug fix: "[INTL:de] updated German man page translation" thanks to Helge
kreutzmann (Closes: #1063481).
* Update all translations and unfuzzy where possible.
* Update de.add to match reality.
* Use alias instead of local gettext thanks to наб.
* eval instead of sh -c thanks to наб.
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