Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.6
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Running aptitude (and consequently apt-listbug) via sudo, I'm not able
to display the bugs list in a browser:
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Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] w
bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
W: Failed to invoke browser.
su gpiero -c "/usr/bin/sensible-browser /tmp/apt-listbugs27667.0.html <
/dev/tty"
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Not sure when this bug has been introduced: it could be a while it
doesn't work for me, but this hunk of code seems to be here since ages
ago and I'm pretty sure I used it in the last years. I can only guess
su's behaviour has changed in the meantime.
Please consider applying the following patch or a similar one in order
to not include the shell redirection inside the command launched via su.
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--- old-apt-listbugs-0.1.6/lib/apt-listbugs/logic.rb 2012-03-06
21:56:13.735125556 +0100
+++ new-apt-listbugs-0.1.6/lib/apt-listbugs/logic.rb 2012-03-06
21:56:14.099128219 +0100
@@ -620,10 +620,9 @@
tmp.close
puts "Invoking browser for #{tmp.path}" if $DEBUG
- browsercommandline = ""
- browsercommandline << "su #{ENV["SUDO_USER"]} -c \"" if ENV["SUDO_USER"]
- browsercommandline << "#{@config.browser} #{tmp.path} < /dev/tty"
- browsercommandline << "\"" if ENV["SUDO_USER"]
+ browsercommandline = "#{@config.browser} #{tmp.path}"
+ browsercommandline = "su #{ENV["SUDO_USER"]} -c \"" + browsercommandline + "\"" if
ENV["SUDO_USER"]
+ browsercommandline << " < /dev/tty"
if system(browsercommandline)
puts "successfully invoked browser" if $DEBUG
else
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Thanks,
Gian Piero.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 0.8.15.9
ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.8
ii libgettext-ruby1.8 2.1.0-2.1
ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.7.352-2
ii ruby-debian [libdpkg-ruby1.8] 0.3.8
ii ruby-httpclient 2.2.1-1
ii ruby-xmlparser 0.7.2-1
ii ruby1.8 1.8.7.352-2
apt-listbugs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 17.0.963.56~r121963-1
ii debianutils 4.2.1
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 10.0.2-1
ii links [www-browser] 2.5-1
ii links2 [www-browser] 2.5-1
ii netsurf-gtk [www-browser] 2.8-2
ii reportbug 6.3.1
ii uzbl [www-browser] 0.0.0~git.20111128-2
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-5
-- no debconf information
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