Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dash
I think dash is not ready to be the default shell. The worst I experienced was frequent and impossible to troubleshoot freezes of one of my servers (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux- source-2.6.17/+question/4377/+index). I also had problems with openembedded.org which produced strange compilation results. It was via the help of the openembedded people that I only found out about sucky dash and that whenever there is a problem on ubuntu the first thing to do is make sure that /bin/sh does not point to dash (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded- devel/2007-April/001862.html). Take a look at bug 71887 for more reasons why dash as default is a bad choice at this point in time. This bug report is about the freezes that dash introduced on my server. I can not say what exactly triggered the freezes. But they are gone after /bin/sh points to bash. The machine could not sustain uptimes of 15 minutes or more previously. I can change it back anytime to test if somebody has an idea of what to look for in trying to pinpoint the cause of this and improve dash. Sorry about the information being rather incomplete at this point in time. up-to-date edgy Via C3 600 MHz Kernel 2.6.15-23-386, but 2.6.15-28-386 is the same (unlike the reports in bug 71212 which first led me to believe this is an NFS issue) possibly some left-over 3rd party packages (unlikely), but currently official ubuntu repos only in sources.list ** Affects: dash (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: Binary package hint: dash I think dash is not ready to be the default shell. The worst I experienced was frequent and impossible to troubleshoot freezes of one of my servers (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux- source-2.6.17/+question/4377/+index). I also had problems with openembedded.org which produced strange compilation results. It was via the help of the openembedded people that I only found out about sucky dash and that whenever there is a problem on ubuntu the first thing to do is make sure that /bin/sh does not point to dash (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded- devel/2007-April/001862.html). Take a look at bug 71887 for more reasons why dash as default is a bad choice at this point in time. This bug report is about the freezes that dash introduced on my server. I can not say what exactly triggered the freezes. But they are gone after /bin/sh points to bash. The machine could not sustain uptimes of - 15 minutes or more. I can change it back anytime to test if somebody - has an idea of what to look for in trying to pinpoint the cause of this - and improve dash. Sorry about the information being rather incomplete - at this point in time. + 15 minutes or more previously. I can change it back anytime to test if + somebody has an idea of what to look for in trying to pinpoint the cause + of this and improve dash. Sorry about the information being rather + incomplete at this point in time. up-to-date edgy Via C3 600 MHz Kernel 2.6.15-23-386, but 2.6.15-28-386 is the same (unlike the reports in bug 71212 which first led me to believe this is an NFS issue) possibly some left-over 3rd party packages (unlikely), but currently official ubuntu repos only in sources.list -- dash is not ready to be the default - computer freezes completely https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108494 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
