Bug#715000: [checkrestart] IndexError during cmdline parsing in Process

2013-07-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.62 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear maintainer, the new version of checkrestart causes an IndexError when it is executed. If I run checkrestart now I get: # checkrestart Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/checkrestart, line 625,

Bug#715000: [checkrestart] IndexError during cmdline parsing in Process

2013-07-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Dear Axel, upon further investigation it does not look as if this is a bug in checkrestart per se. checkrestart correctly (cf. proc(5)) assumed that /proc/[pid]/cmdline is a set of string that is separated by null bytes with a further null byte at the end. The reason checkrestart runs into a