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regarding checkinstall: 'rm -rf' hangs in Makefile if target directory contains
more than 200 files
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Package: checkinstall
Version: 1.6.0-1
Severity: normal
I have been trying to build GNU Emacs from CVS and make a package
using checkinstall. checkinstall is hanging forever while running 'rm
-fr'. I have managed to reproduce the bug - it seems to happen
whenever rm tries to remove a directory of 201 or more files. In the
following example I mkdir a directory 'tmpdir' containing 201 empty
files, then make a directory 'tmpdir2' containing a very simple
Makefile. I run 'sudo checkinstall' in 'tmpdir2' and it hangs on the
'rm' command. I show that the newfiles.tmp file grows constantly, and
show that it is filling up with '#No such file or directory' messages.
Note that when I make the Makefile in ~ and run checkinstall from
there, rather than making it in ~/tmpdir2 and running checkinstall
from there, the problem doesn't happen.
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(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ cd
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ pwd
/home/chris
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ ls -ld tmpdir*
ls: tmpdir*: No such file or directory
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ mkdir tmpdir
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ i=1; while ((i<202)); do touch
/home/chris/tmpdir/$i; ((i=i+1)); done
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ ls tmpdir | wc -l
201
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ mkdir tmpdir2
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ cd tmpdir2
/home/chris/tmpdir2
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ printf "install:\n\trm -fr
/home/chris/tmpdir\n" > Makefile
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ cat Makefile
install:
rm -fr /home/chris/tmpdir
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo checkinstall -y
checkinstall 1.6.0, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.
The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist.
Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: y
Preparing package documentation...OK
*** No known documentation files were found. The new package
*** won't include a documentation directory.
*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************
This package will be built according to these values:
0 - Maintainer: [ root@chrislap ]
1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.0 ]
2 - Name: [ tmpdir2 ]
3 - Version: [ 20060620 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 - Source location: [ tmpdir2 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
Installing with make install...
========================= Installation results
===========================
rm -fr /home/chris/tmpdir
*** at this point the command hang - I hit control-z to stop it and put it into
the background ***
[1]+ Stopped sudo checkinstall -y
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ bg
[1]+ sudo checkinstall -y &
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ ps -ef | grep 'rm -fr'
root 24981 24980 85 16:39 pts/5 00:00:16 rm -fr
/home/chris/tmpdir
chris 24992 21597 0 16:39 pts/5 00:00:00 grep rm -fr
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo ls -l /proc/24981/fd | grep /var
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2006-06-20 16:40 4 ->
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/META/DIRLS/24981_776_179687
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo ls -l
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17783709 2006-06-20 16:40
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo ls -l
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18735007 2006-06-20 16:40
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ tail
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
tail: cannot open `/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp' for
reading: Permission denied
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo tail -1000
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/91 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/92 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/93 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/94 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/95 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/96 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/97 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/98 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/99 #No such file or
directory
5 -1 unlink /home/chris/tmpdir/9 #No such file or
directory
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo wc -l
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
581819 /var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo wc -l
/var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
590494 /var/tmp/JErNeZYSrkgcAlQeaoSq/newfiles.tmp
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ fg
sudo checkinstall -y
make: *** [install] Interrupt
*** SIGINT received ***
Cleaning up...OK
Bye.
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's the same test case, but with 200 files, instead of 201.
Notice now that the "rm -fr" line is immediately followed by
"installation successful" - ie. it doesn't hang any more:
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(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ /bin/rm -fr tmpdir*
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ mkdir tmpdir
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ i=1; while ((i<201)); do touch
/home/chris/tmpdir/$i; ((i=i+1)); done
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ mkdir tmpdir2
(sid) chris@chrislap:~$ cd tmpdir2
/home/chris/tmpdir2
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ printf "install:\n\trm -fr
/home/chris/tmpdir\n" > Makefile
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$ sudo checkinstall -y
[...]
Installing with make install...
========================= Installation results
===========================
rm -fr /home/chris/tmpdir
======================== Installation successful
==========================
*** at this point I hit control-c, since the 'rm' had completed successfully ***
*** SIGINT received ***
Cleaning up...OK
Bye.
(sid) chris@chrislap:~/tmpdir2$
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages checkinstall depends on:
ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii findutils 4.2.27-3 utilities for finding files--find,
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
checkinstall recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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