Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
I just hit bug 626447 during an upgrade started from aptitude, and as a
result I could no longer run any binaries on the system. I had a
handful of running user shells, but no root shells to fix the problem.
I did have aptitude running as root, but after much investigation I
found that aptitude had no option to execute a shell.
Please consider adding an option to execute a shell. Please also
consider making the shell command to execute configurable through
the preferences GUI, which would have allowed me to set it to
"/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /bin/sh". :)
Under normal circumstances (when system binaries can actually run), a
running aptitude provides root-equivalent access anyway by various means
(for instance, the conffile prompt); thus, this option would not incur
any additional security implications. Providing this option would offer
one more tool to help recover a hosed system, in case the user forgot to
have a root shell running during the upgrade.
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Apr 2 2011 21:33:01
Compiler: g++ 4.5.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.10.1
NCurses version 5.8
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.10.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff0b3ff000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007fae778a9000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fae77656000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fae77450000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fae77184000)
libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007fae76f28000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fae76b09000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fae768f2000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fae76654000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0x00007fae7643b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fae7621f000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fae75f15000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fae75c92000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fae75a7c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fae756f9000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fae754f5000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fae752f1000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fae750ec000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fae74edc000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fae74cd4000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fae77bda000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: x86_64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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