severity 752114 wishlist
thanks
Hi Axel,
thanks for finding this remarkable bug :-). Running the pacman game
happens due to needrestart is called as normal user from within
(Patrick's :-) bugscript.
needrestart is located in /usr/sbin and it is not reasonable usable as
non-root user. In the normal use cases the pacman game will not be started.
IMHO we should discuss:
- howto run `needrestart -v` as root from the bug script || only run
`needrestart -v` if reportbug is run as root
- drop 30-pacman while building the Debian package since ArchLinux's
pacman is not available on Debian - might save some CPU cycles
HTH,
Thomas
PS: The bug is not triggered in the default use case and is an issue of
the packaged configuration files. Therefore I've changed the severity to
wishlist.
On 06/19/2014 07:37 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
Package: needrestart
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Thomas and Patrick,
if I want to report a bug against needrestart, the bug script runs
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman which calls "pacman" with neither a
given path nor with limiting $PATH.
On my system it finds the game binary /usr/games/pacman from the
package pacman instead of the expected ArchLinux's package manager
(which is named "pacman", too, but isn't available in Debian).
Interestingly /usr/games/pacman seems to swallow the given options
without issues and happily runs, well, Pacman. :-D
See the screenshot at
http://gallery.noone.org/Screenshots/Fehler/?start=9&image=needrestart-pacman-vs-pacman.png
This was probably the most hilarious bug I ever run into. Thanks for
that experience. :-)
P.S.: To get out of this so that I can still report the bug, I started
the following little script in another terminal:
while :; do killall -INT pacman; sleep 0.1 ; done
-- Package-specific info:
<#part type="text/plain" disposition=attachment description="Bug script output">
needrestart output:
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
No services need to be restarted.
checkrestart output:
<#/part>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.15-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.10
ii libmodule-find-perl 0.12-1
ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.13-1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.50-1
ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1
ii libterm-progressbar-simple-perl 0.03-1
ii perl 5.18.2-4
needrestart recommends no packages.
needrestart suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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