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and subject line Bug#1107254: fixed in autopkgtest 5.54
has caused the Debian Bug report #1107254,
regarding autopkgtest: unshare backend errors out with umask 0027
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1107254: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107254
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.49
Severity: normal
When attempting to run a test with umask being 0027, the backend
eventually errors out.
Observe:
$ umask 0027
$ autopkgtest -U -B libocas -- unshare -r unstable
...
Get:1 http://192.168.0.7:9999/debian unstable/main libocas 0.97+dfsg-8 (dsc)
[2006 B]
Get:2 http://192.168.0.7:9999/debian unstable/main libocas 0.97+dfsg-8 (tar)
[5450 kB]
Get:3 http://192.168.0.7:9999/debian unstable/main libocas 0.97+dfsg-8 (diff)
[8676 B]
sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
blame: libocas
badpkg: rules extract failed with exit code 2
autopkgtest [12:39:00]: ERROR: erroneous package: rules extract failed with
exit code 2
$ umask 0022
$ autopkgtest -U -B libocas -- unshare -r unstable
...
autopkgtest [12:39:38]: test executables: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [12:39:38]: test executables: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - -
- - - - - -
executables PASS
autopkgtest [12:39:38]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
executables PASS
I've narrowed it down to one line of code and have a workaround for it,
though I'm stumped as to why it works. I'll file an MR with more
details.
Best,
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.22+bpo-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii apt-utils 2.6.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22
ii mawk 1.3.4.20200120-3.1
ii procps 2:4.0.2-3
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-debian 0.1.49
ii python3-distro-info 1.5+deb12u1
ii retry 1.0.5-3
Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends:
ii autodep8 0.28
ii fakeroot 1.31-1.2
Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
pn docker-cli | docker.io <none>
pn docker.io <none>
pn fakemachine <none>
pn genisoimage <none>
pn incus <none>
pn lxc <none>
pn lxd <none>
ii mmdebstrap 1.5.6-4~bpo12+1
ii ovmf 2022.11-6+deb12u2
ii ovmf-ia32 2022.11-6+deb12u2
ii podman 4.3.1+ds1-8+deb12u1+b1
ii qemu-efi-aarch64 2022.11-6+deb12u2
ii qemu-efi-arm 2022.11-6+deb12u2
pn qemu-efi-riscv64 <none>
ii qemu-system 1:10.0.0+ds-2~bpo12+2
ii qemu-utils 1:10.0.0+ds-2~bpo12+2
pn schroot <none>
ii uidmap 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+deb12u1
ii util-linux 2.38.1-5+deb12u3
ii vmdb2 0.28-2+rocm1
ii zerofree 1.1.1-1
-- debconf-show failed
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: autopkgtest
Source-Version: 5.54
Done: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
autopkgtest, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paride Legovini <[email protected]> (supplier of updated autopkgtest package)
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:32:40 +0100
Source: autopkgtest
Architecture: source
Version: 5.54
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian CI team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
Closes: 1107254
Changes:
autopkgtest (5.54) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Paride Legovini ]
* Drop support for three dashes (---) as the virt-server separator
* a-virt-lxd: refer to VMs/containers as "instances"
.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Call Incus instances autopkgtest-incus-*, not autopkgtest-lxd-*
.
[ Florent 'Skia' Jacquet ]
* adt_testbed: give some time to `apt` for acquiring the dpkg lock
.
[ Christian Kastner ]
* Set umask during mktemp call (Closes: #1107254)
* qemu: Also remount user shared dirs after reboot
.
[ Valentin Haudiquet ]
* Set QEMU baseline profile for RISC-V to RVA23 (LP: #2137720)
* Fix deprecated qemu-user-static usage
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