Thank you for the quick help!

Funnily enough I tried exactly what you recommended, but only after running the false script at least once. Thus, the dir was already borked and I could not recognize that this would fix it.

I will do as you recommend, as a workaround. I specifically add the slash at the end of such variables, the reasoning is the following:

considering the script I used for testing:

s6-rc-update -v3 -l ${s6live} ${s6dir}${s6db}

If I didn't append the slash when defining ${s6dir}, I had to write ${s6dir}/${s6db}(note the slash). Now imagine ${s6dir} was empty or both ${s6dir} and ${s6db} were empty due to some bug/error and the command was "rm -rf"...

Therefore I am looking forward to your fix!

On a side note: for posting info or questions about my project of implementing s6/s6-rc policy for Gentoo, I should turn to [email protected], right?

Are general questions, e.g. about whether or not my idea of a policy is good, allowed on that mailing list?


Have a nice weekend and thank you for the amazing set of tools you provide us with!


Paul


On 05.07.24 12:00, Laurent Bercot wrote:

 Oh boy, that's a stupid oversight on my part. :D
 Line 1353 of your pastebin reveals what's happening:

symlink("s6-rc:s6-rc-update:tOWiQ9", "/run/Nanderty/s6-rc/:s6-rc-update_atomic_symlink:YWNjdo") = 0

 That symlink gets created... inside your old livedir, which is less
than ideal. We want it to get created in /run/Nanderty/ instead, at
the same level as your old livedir.

define s6live /run/${USER}/s6-rc/

 The final slash here is the cause of all your woes.
 Remove it:

 define s6live /run/${USER}/s6-rc

 and it should work.

 My mistake is to make the new livedir name by appending a suffix
to the live name, without checking first that it doesn't end with a
slash. Sorry! I'll fix that in the next version of s6-rc.
 In the meantime, just make sure not to have a slash at the end of the
names you use for 'live'.

--
 Laurent

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