Ah, I think I remember something about ubuntu sudo environmental variable being broken. Is LD_PRELOAD properly passed through sudo? I think there was some configuration item you had to do.
At Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:38:19 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > At Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:21:47 +0100, > Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > Package: cowdancer > > > > Version: 0.44 > > > > > > Why is this so old? > > > > This is actually Ubuntu hardy. I couldn't reproduce it now at home > > with sid / 0.48 but the setup is quite different, too. > > > > > I've noticed that too. > > > > > > What's the lock function they use? > > > > This comes from apt/libapt-pkg: > > apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc: > > int FD = open(File.c_str(),O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_NOFOLLOW,0640); > > ... > > fl.l_type = F_WRLCK; > > fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET; > > fl.l_start = 0; > > fl.l_len = 0; > > if (fcntl(FD,F_SETLK,&fl) == -1) > > > > Since it does an open O_RDWR first, maybe cowdancer tried to copy the > > file but fails? There was a cp related bug fix in 0.47. I didn't see > > any WIFEXITED related error message, though. > > > > Do you have any idea how I could verify if it is the same bug, short > > of installing a backported newer cowdancer? > > > > You should install backported cowdancer or reproduce with the latest > version; the version in Ubuntu is not supported by anybody, > and later versions have additional debug messages etc. > > By setting COWDANCER_DEBUG environmental variable, you get more debug > output which might or might not help. > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Cheers, > > Stefan > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
