Dear Russ, On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > tags 454694 moreinfo > thanks
Right. More info coming up! :-) > > The gzipped log of the piuparts run for openafs-fileserver is > > attached. > > Unfortunately, piuparts logs are almost unreadable, containing a bunch of > debugging information that isn't very useful and not containing the key > information that would be useful, which is largely why I don't try to use > it. I tried for a while and gave up because of that problem. I know > people are actively working on it; hopefully it will get better. The relevant part of the log is this: 3m9.8s ERROR: Package purging left files on system: /etc/openafs owned by: openafs-client, openafs-fileserver > > The problem is that the process > > > > Install Etch openafs-fileserver -> upgrade to sid -> purge > > > > seems to let the following files remain unremoved: > > > > /etc/openafs owned by: openafs-client, openafs-fileserver > > This is a directory shipped with the package, so it will be automatically > removed when it's empty: > > windlord:~/tmp> dpkg -c openafs-fileserver_1.4.5.dfsg1-1_i386.deb | grep /etc > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-11-11 16:23 ./etc/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-11-11 16:23 ./etc/openafs/ > drwx------ root/root 0 2007-11-11 16:23 ./etc/openafs/server/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-11-11 16:23 ./etc/init.d/ > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 3329 2007-11-11 16:14 > ./etc/init.d/openafs-fileserver > > This therefore isn't the real problem. Unfortunately, according to my understanding of the piuparts logs, the directory may be empty, yet it is not removed. > What file is left behind in /etc/openafs on your system that's preventing > it from being removed? I'm happy to fix this if I know what file is > keeping it from being removed, but just removing /etc/openafs isn't a > valid solution. It's not clear from this bug report whether the problem > is even with openafs-fileserver or with openafs-client. The piuparts log has been generated by Lucas, running it on Grid 5000. But I can reproduce this on a chroot with the following steps: [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo apt-get install openafs-fileserver/stable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version 1.4.2-6 (Debian:4.0r1/stable) for openafs-fileserver The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gcc-3.4-base Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: openafs-client openafs-fileserver Suggested packages: openafs-doc Recommended packages: openafs-modules-source openafs-modules2 lsof ntp The following NEW packages will be installed: openafs-client openafs-fileserver 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3807kB of archives. After unpacking 8458kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Selecting previously deselected package openafs-client. (Reading database ... 25457 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking openafs-client (from .../openafs-client_1.4.5.dfsg1-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openafs-fileserver. Unpacking openafs-fileserver (from .../openafs-fileserver_1.4.2-6_i386.deb) ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up openafs-client (1.4.5.dfsg1-1) ... Starting AFS services: AFS module /lib/modules/2.6.23.1/fs/openafs.o does not exist. Not starting AFS. Please consider building kernel modules using instructions in /usr/share/doc/openafs-client/README.modules Setting up openafs-fileserver (1.4.2-6) ... Starting AFS Server: /etc/init.d/openafs-fileserver: line 38: 22394 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON bosserver. OK, next I upgrade: [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo apt-get install openafs-fileserver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gcc-3.4-base Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: openafs-doc Recommended packages: ntp The following packages will be upgraded: openafs-fileserver 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/987kB of archives. After unpacking 12.3kB disk space will be freed. Preconfiguring packages ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) (Reading database ... 25725 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace openafs-fileserver 1.4.2-6 (using .../openafs-fileserver_1.4.5.dfsg1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement openafs-fileserver ... Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up openafs-fileserver (1.4.5.dfsg1-1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/openafs-fileserver ... Next, I perform the steps in the same order as mentioned in the piuparts logs: [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo dpkg --remove openafs-fileserver (Reading database ... 25724 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openafs-fileserver ... bos: could not find entry (getting key from local KeyFile) bos: running unauthenticated bos: failed to shutdown servers (you are not authorized for this operation) bos: can't wait for processes to shutdown (you are not authorized for this operation) [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo dpkg --remove openafs-client (Reading database ... 25692 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openafs-client ... Stopping AFS services:. [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo dpkg --purge openafs-client (Reading database ... 25464 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openafs-client ... Purging configuration files for openafs-client ... dpkg - warning: while removing openafs-client, directory `/etc/openafs' not empty so not removed. [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] sudo dpkg --purge openafs-fileserver (Reading database ... 25461 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openafs-fileserver ... Purging configuration files for openafs-fileserver ... dpkg - warning: while removing openafs-fileserver, directory `/var/lib/openafs' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing openafs-fileserver, directory `/var/log/openafs' not empty so not removed. [(sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] ls /etc/openafs <blank> And sure enough, I can rmdir that directory, confirming that it is empty. In case you feel there is still some error, it could be a piuparts limitation. If I can help out further, please tell me. HTH. > (I'll try to take a look at this myself if you don't have this information > available, but this is the sort of information that piuparts really should > be providing for it to be useful.) True. Lars is working on it, we'll see how it goes. After my current run, I shall summarize and report to him problems like the one you have brought to my notice now. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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