On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 7.1wheezy6
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for
> temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they go
> stale (nfs), a package (in this case 'base-files') that includes
> /mnt in the files section will result in a complete failure to
> install.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> SERVER:~# type aptup
> aptup is a function
> aptup ()
> {
> read -p "Include any available kernel packages in update? [n]: "
> reply;
> test "$reply" || reply=no;
> aptitude update && if echo $reply | egrep -iq ^y; then
> aptitude full-upgrade;
> else
> aptitude install $(aptitude search -F %p '~U
> !~n"linux-(image|header)"');
> fi && aptitude clean
> }
>
> SERVER:~# aptup
> Include any available kernel packages in update? [n]: n
> ....
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> a2ps apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin
> apache2.2-common apt apt-utils base-files bind9-host cups-bsd cups-client
> cups-common curl dbus dbus-x11 dnsutils
> ....
>
> Preparing to replace base-files 7.1wheezy2 (using
> .../base-files_7.1wheezy6_amd64.deb) ...
> --> Unpacking replacement base-files ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.1wheezy6_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> --> unable to stat `./mnt' (which I was about to install): Stale NFS file
> handle
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.1wheezy6_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
>
> SERVER:~# ls /mnt
> ls: cannot access /mnt: Stale NFS file handle
> (d'oh sysadmin mounted other server months ago, which is now ESTALE,
> but should not result in a fatal install failure in base-files)
>
> SERVER:X# dpkg --fsys-tarfile -
> /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.1wheezy6_amd64.deb | tar tvf - | grep
> /mnt
> --> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-11 21:07 ./mnt/
> ------------------------------------------------
I see the problem, and I see how dropping /mnt from base-files.deb
(and creating it in the postinst) would make the problem to disappear.
But I'm not sure that this is a bug in base-files.
Guillem, do you have an opinion on this?
Could this be fixed in dpkg, or maybe dpkg has good reasons
to fail in cases like this one?
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