Your message dated Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:20:33 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#892771: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #525875, regarding race condition when reading sudo output to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libgksu2-0 Version: 2.0.7-1 Severity: important There's a race condition when reading sudo output, which makes gksudo practically unusable on certain conditions (on my Yeeloong (mipsel) it happens every time I try): - libgksu spawns sudo - libgksu calls select() and waits for sudo to start printing its banner message. - sudo starts printing - libgksu returns from select() and iterates 50 times attempting to read the GNOME_SUDO_PASSWORD string. - sudo keeps printing, eventually printing "GNOME_SUDO_PASSWORD", but too late... - libgksu already gave up searching for a password prompt, and assumes sudo doesn't require one. Attached patch works around the problem. I'm not sure what would be the way to fix this, if there's one. I assume you can't just get rid of O_NONBLOCK. You can probably reproduce this by inserting a sleep(1) in sudo's main(). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libgksu2-0 depends on: ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-7 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtop2-7 2.22.3-1 gtop system monitoring library ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpixman-1-0 0.10.0-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2+lenny2 PNG library - runtime ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility ii xbase-clients 1:7.3+18 miscellaneous X clients - metapack ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libgksu2-0 recommends: ii sudo 1.6.9p17-2 Provide limited super user privile libgksu2-0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf informationdiff -ur libgksu-2.0.7.old/libgksu/libgksu.c libgksu-2.0.7/libgksu/libgksu.c --- libgksu-2.0.7.old/libgksu/libgksu.c 2008-05-28 02:00:44.000000000 +0200 +++ libgksu-2.0.7/libgksu/libgksu.c 2009-04-27 17:54:02.000000000 +0200 @@ -2625,6 +2626,7 @@ * seeing sudo's lecture, or that some pam module is spitting * debugging stuff at the screen */ + sleep (1); for (counter = 0; counter < 50; counter++) { if (strncmp (buffer, "GNOME_SUDO_PASS", 15) == 0)
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.0.13~pre1-9+rm Dear submitter, as the package libgksu has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/892771 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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