On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:05:32AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> So the latest version doesn't have the same error message (with "cnf"
> variable being unbound) but it still doesn't fail gracefully when
> the database is not available.
>
> Instead of asking to file bug reports, it should tell them to run "apt
> update".
That's what it does since 19.10.0:
command-not-found (19.10.0) eoan; urgency=medium
.
* If the database is absent, do not crash with a backtrace, but
* tell the
user to run apt update.
Here's the proof:
jak@jak-t480s:~/Documents$ lxc launch images:debian/sid debian-test -e
Creating debian-test
Starting debian-test
jak@jak-t480s:~/Documents$ lxc exec debian-test bash
root@debian-test:~# apt install command-not-found
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
apt-file ca-certificates distro-info-data iso-codes libapt-pkg-perl
libexporter-tiny-perl libgdbm-compat4 libgdbm6 liblist-moreutils-perl
liblist-moreutils-xs-perl libmpdec3 libperl5.32 libpython3-stdlib
libpython3.9-minimal libpython3.9-stdlib libreadline8
libregexp-assemble-perl libsqlite3-0 lsb-release media-types openssl perl
perl-modules-5.32 python-apt-common python3 python3-apt python3-minimal
python3.9 python3.9-minimal readline-common
Suggested packages:
snapd isoquery gdbm-l10n sensible-utils perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl |
libterm-readline-perl-perl make libtap-harness-archive-perl python3-doc
python3-tk python3-venv python3-apt-dbg python-apt-doc python3.9-venv
python3.9-doc binutils binfmt-support readline-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-file ca-certificates command-not-found distro-info-data iso-codes
libapt-pkg-perl libexporter-tiny-perl libgdbm-compat4 libgdbm6
liblist-moreutils-perl liblist-moreutils-xs-perl libmpdec3 libperl5.32
libpython3-stdlib libpython3.9-minimal libpython3.9-stdlib libreadline8
libregexp-assemble-perl libsqlite3-0 lsb-release media-types openssl perl
perl-modules-5.32 python-apt-common python3 python3-apt python3-minimal
python3.9 python3.9-minimal readline-common
0 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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root@debian-test:~# command-not-found firefox
Could not find command-not-found database. Run 'sudo apt update' to populate it.
firefox: command not found
Logout and back in again:
$ lxc exec debian-test bash
root@debian-test:~# firefox
Could not find command-not-found database. Run 'sudo apt update' to populate it.
firefox: command not found
> This bad behaviour is now generating quite some noise in the
> Debian bug tracker because we have enabled command-not-found in Kali
> and when they get it installed during upgrade (as opposed to during a
> fresh installation), the database is not created during the same apt
> run and they get this error message when they run a missing command:
We only see reports from Kali, I have to assume it's Kali-specific breakage,
and I also do not have the resources to interact with this churn.
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