Package: cereal Version: 0.24-1 Severity: normal when /var is full, "cereal-admin create" fails to work. This is probably to be expected, but if this kind of failure happens, it should probably bail out earlier, and it should probably return a value other than 0.
Below is an example failure. --dkg ----------- 0 root@foo:~# cereal-admin c bar /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 bar-console bar-console mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar': No space left on device ln: creating symbolic link `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/run': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/finish': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/down': No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar': No space left on device /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/SESSION: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/TTY: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/BAUD: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/USER: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/GROUP: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/LOGUSER: Directory nonexistent /usr/sbin/cereal-admin: 306: cannot create /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/LOGGROUP: Directory nonexistent mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar': No space left on device ln: creating symbolic link `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/log/run': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/log/main/current': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/log/main/current': No such file or directory chown: cannot access `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/log/main': No such file or directory chgrp: cannot access `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/log': No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar': No space left on device mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar': No space left on device mkfifo: cannot create fifo `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/socket': No such file or directory chown: cannot access `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/socket': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/socket': No such file or directory Created session 'bar': cat: /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/USER: No such file or directory [: 306: =: argument expected cat: /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/LOGUSER: No such file or directory cat: /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env/LOGGROUP: No such file or directory cd: 306: can't cd to /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar/env cat: TTY: No such file or directory cat: BAUD: No such file or directory cat: USER: No such file or directory cat: LOGGROUP: No such file or directory ?-f bar update-service: fatal: /var/lib/cereal/sessions/bar does not exist, or is not a directory. 0 root@foo:~# df -h -------- -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc6-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cereal depends on: ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups ii procmail 3.22-19 Versatile e-mail processor ii runit 2.1.1-6.2 system-wide service supervision ii screen 4.0.3-14 terminal multiplexor with VT100/AN cereal recommends no packages. cereal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org