Package: fai-client Version: 3.2.16 Severity: normal Tags: patch When doing a softupdate, the file /var/run/fai/fai_softupdate_is_running is created. This file is used by fcopy to implement the option -U (don't copy if in softupdate) (see /usr/sbin/fcopy, line 434).
The file /var/run/fai/fai_softupdate_is_running is created by (/usr/lib/fai/subroutines, line 533 and 536): stamp=/var/run/fai/fai_softupdate_is_running echo $$ > $stamp thus, the directory /var/run/fai/ has to exists already. /var/run/fai/ is created when the package fai-client is installed. However, when /var/run is mounted as tmpfs, the directory /var/run/fai/ is not conserved during reboots, so /var/run/fai/fai_softupdate_is_running is not created during an softupdate and "fcopy -U" does not detect that a softupdate is occurring... It should be sufficient to add [ -e /var/run/fai/ ] || mkdir /var/run/fai/ before line 536 in /usr/lib/fai/subroutines to guarantee the presence of /var/run/fai/ and resolve the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fai-client depends on: ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libparse-recdescent-perl 1.95.1+dfsg-3 generates recursive-descent parser ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages fai-client recommends: ii cfengine2 2.2.8-1 Tool for configuring and maintaini ii debconf-utils 1.5.24 debconf utilities Versions of packages fai-client suggests: pn cryptsetup <none> (no description available) pn dmsetup <none> (no description available) pn ntfsprogs <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
