Package: fakechroot Version: 2.8-1 Severity: important -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
I have found that on systems running nscd, certain (all?) nameservice calls are not properly faked when running fakechroot, which can cause improper failures in the chrooted environment. For instance, useradd fails in a fakechroot when the host system is running nscd: hydra:/scratch/jrollins 0$ PC -eFH | grep [n]scd root 28566 1 0 44073 3416 6 Oct30 ? 00:01:05 /usr/sbin/nscd hydra:/scratch/jrollins 0$ getent passwd | grep jrollins jrollins:x:2000:2000:Jamie Rollins:/home/jrollins:/bin/bash hydra:/scratch/jrollins 0$ fakeroot fakechroot chroot testroot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# PS1='$? \h:\w\$ ' 0 hydra:/# getent passwd | grep jrollins 1 hydra:/# useradd jrollins useradd: user jrollins exists 9 hydra:/# exit exit hydra:/scratch/jrollins 9$ This is particularly problematic when running debootstrap with the fakechroot variant, ie: fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot lenny testroot Postinst scripts that call useradd to add users that already exist in the meta system will fail, causing the debootstrap to fail. This makes the debootstrap fakechroot variant unusable on systems running nscd. I believe that this bug is somewhat related to 413918 [0], but since systems with nscd are still failing with fakechroot 2.8, the problem persists. I wish I understood this stuff better to be able to speak to what the problem could be. Hopefully smarter people can. Thanks much for maintaining fakechroot. jamie. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413918 - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fakechroot depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries fakechroot recommends no packages. fakechroot suggests no packages. - -- no debconf information LocalWords: eFH grep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJJF72WAAoJEO00zqvie6q8aDkQAK2v6fUdb8W6l2TX24I9JjGd dNFRMQbJ/U1RkDp2ZBsXqPB1wIiW+InqPLVbHDT4H5oVYXKXs531ZptoPMnDaFK9 6fP4teAwblHRPhY7asOdjdUEWhuJqcQ0NhMUbDk8S4zyamspltLhwB3gzIxZGI2p f2MZjUZXmQ1pwSHNp21Wvo7mWfY/R3Dwxkm0yvUc3rdEeNkZNH8C3wkqfeOcoTtv S7K+PLsTxZpyOCqR1DqJHIHljXcScLerkhzVrcRvtn0QbVCk7kFnBxN11Oeo3z12 i2WAyLuTa/zTouPgfQQfpCtR6ALXrCkzfrlyd7sydTuuIqZLC3HW+pLWJvyaDbUI nA4UvkKa4EvE+UgWNZZPRxLQAb58YAjSZsY/3xbELQLQ0Te6G0edCfECH8kLErSw JtXoZikdIkzod2dBL2WiAKpZM5UqylPIgxU9gnHrUCMOEnJUbNJSNVkuWVtBfEC5 j+BzPPYc1HAlhbC9qabtR/xLcwuQZMcZFi3XV8j6IBDPOWmXQI3oWED/PTlmBYEj mLrV/joqlOuzPGBvNAZj4t0N4U9Gipua6Rpo4FkTRyHI8Sxi0K52Rf6WKpFVD/tf e8MlTw3NkdtN9mJr/KwI9BXCP2Qk1G1hfB/TfVQEv8X2z12S8PHwKW54Ol/eovVw 51sDGnPZ4UeCvTnHm3nL =yDUP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
