Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo Hello Russell Coker,
Thanks for your bug report. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:00:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.29.2-1 > Severity: normal > > When I run $(arch) at the command-line (which expands to x86_64 on my system) (Same for my test system.) > I then can't run apt-get. Below is what happens, the Abort is immediately > after running apt-get without me entering anything on the terminal. I'm not able to reproduce any problems like this. I've tried the following foo$ $(arch) $ sudo apt upgrade ^C $ sudo apt-get upgrade ^C foo$ sudo su - foo# $(arch) # apt upgrade ^C # apt-get upgrade ^C For all of the above cases I get asked if I want to proceed with updating a bunch of packets and there's no automatic abort, thus I need to press control-c to bail out manually. > > This was particularly confusing as I didn't realise that I had even run it, > I had accidentally pasted $(arch) into the terminal and not realised that it > had launched a shell with different capabilities. > > The following packages will be upgraded: > ffmpeg ghostscript ghostscript-x libav-tools libavcodec57 libavdevice57 > libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libgs9 libgs9-common > libopendkim-dev libopendkim11 libpostproc54 libswresample2 libswscale4 login > openvpn passwd qemu-kvm qemu-system-arm qemu-system-common qemu-system-x86 > qemu-utils screen > 26 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 30.7 MB of archives. > After this operation, 70.7 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort. Please describe your exact procedure. Might also be useful if you can strace the apt command when you reproduce the problem to see how it interacts with the system (eg. any external signals being sent to the process or so). Regards, Andreas Henriksson
