Bug#316579: fam: compact flash card destroyed
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:12:29PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > I'm fairly certain the version of fam that was installed was 2.7.0-6 > as that's the version that still has an entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status: That settles the question then. I will prepare an upload to sarge with the #234787 patch. -- Chuan-kai Lin http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~cklin/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#316579: fam: compact flash card destroyed
On Jul 9, 2005, at 3:04 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:18:28PM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: There is no package version number in the bug report, but it does look like the submitter is using testing/unstable, which means his fam program has already been patched for #234787. There's no guarantee of that; he may have still been running the version that released with sarge. Jamin, can you please confirm? The system in question was following testing up until sarge's release. At that time the apt/preferences file on it was updated so that stable (sarge) should take precedence: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 300 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -1 I'm fairly certain the version of fam that was installed was 2.7.0-6 as that's the version that still has an entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status: $ apt-cache policy fam fam: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.7.0-6 Version Table: 2.7.0-7 0 400 ftp://forseti testing/main Packages 300 ftp://forseti unstable/main Packages 2.7.0-6 0 900 ftp://forseti stable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#316579: fam: compact flash card destroyed
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:30:10AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > AIUI, this bug is the same as bug #234787. Is that correct? If so, > this bug is now sarge-only. Are there any plans to apply that fix for > sarge? There seems to be at least two problems here: one is that fam did not stop monitoring the mounted CF card before the unmount, and the other is that Gnome desktop incorrectly reported the CF card as being unmounted. The first problem could be the same one as in #234787, but the second sounds really like a Gnome bug. There is no package version number in the bug report, but it does look like the submitter is using testing/unstable, which means his fam program has already been patched for #234787. fam is quite a mess with unresponsive upstream, and it would not surprise me that there are other bugs lurking in the program. Here is my take on what should happen: For the short term, getting the Gnome folks to migrate to gamin (a drop-in replacement of fam) may be the best choice. According to the author of gamin, not supporting FAMSuspendMonitor(), FAMResumeMonitor(), and FAMMonitorCollection() simplifies system design quite a bit, so gamin should be less buggy than fam. For the long term, we need to solve the "monitoring interferes with unmounting" problem at a more fundamental level; otherwise something will always go wrong and prevent unmounting. Unfortunately this interference is the result of limitations of the kernel dnotify API, and the problem can be completely solved only with the new ionotify API, which has not been accepted into the Linux kernel yet. gamin supports ionotify in patched kernels, but fam only understands dnotify. To summarize, we are kind of screwed, because there is not much we can do to help the poor users. In any case, I will start talking to the Gnome team about the migration to gamin. -- Chuan-kai Lin http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~cklin/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#316579: fam: compact flash card destroyed
AIUI, this bug is the same as bug #234787. Is that correct? If so, this bug is now sarge-only. Are there any plans to apply that fix for sarge? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#316579: fam: compact flash card destroyed
Package: fam Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Fam was installed via dependancies of the gnome virtual package. Since it was running it appears to have kept an open handle on one of my compact flash cards when it was attached to the system and thus it was inadvertantly removed without completely unmounting. The unmount command was issued via right-click on the gnome desktop media icon and appeared to have complete successfully (icon no longer on the desktop). However, the media is now completely and utterly unusable in any system as all report that it does not have a partition table and it is impossible to partition the media (all attempts on both Linux and Mac OS X fail). I've had numerous problems with fam locking removable media incorrectly (as have others judging by the reports). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages fam depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii portmap 5-9 The RPC portmapper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
