On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:48:41 -0700 Francois Marier <franc...@debian.org>
wrote:
> On 2016-11-01 at 12:31:28, Jack.R wrote:
> > Not sure if this must be reported on email-reminder or lsb-release.
>
> It looks like a bug in lsb-release since it's a Python backtrace and
> email-reminder is written in Perl, but if there's a way to
> work-around this bug in email-reminder, I'm happy to do it.
>
> > In a root terminal, I got:
> > # su - email-reminder -s /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/lsb_release
> > No LSB modules are available.
>
> I believe that's expected.
>
> > # su - email-reminder -s /bin/bash -c `/usr/bin/lsb_release -a`
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > ID:: Distributor : commande introuvable
>
> The problem here is the way the last parameter is escaped. Try this:
>
> sudo su - email-reminder -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/lsb_release -a"
>
> (with double quotes instead of backticks)
>
> > # /usr/bin/lsb_release -a
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > Distributor ID: Debian
> > Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
> > Release: testing
> > Codename: stretch
>
> Ok, given that this works, what happens if you edit
> /usr/share/perl5/EmailReminder/Utils.pm and around line 140, change
>
> my $distro = `/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -d`; chomp $distro;
>
> to this:
>
> my $distro = `/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -d"`; chomp
> $distro;
>
> Francois
>
> --
> https://fmarier.org/
>
>
With double quotes instead of backticks
# sudo su - email-reminder -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/lsb_release -a"
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
Release: testing
Codename: stretch
# /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -d"
Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
I made the change in /usr/share/perl5/EmailReminder/Utils.pm but
still get error
# /etc/cron.daily/email-reminder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 95, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 59, in main
distinfo = lsb_release.get_distro_information()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 341, in
get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 283, in
guess_debian_release rinfo = guess_release_from_apt()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 188, in
guess_release_from_apt releases = parse_apt_policy()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 171, in
parse_apt_policy close_fds=True).communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'apt-cache'
Error: could not mail the reminder out
--
Jack.R
