Control: severity -1 serious
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 02:20:15PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote:
> On 26/10/16 14:11, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Oct 26, James Cowgill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Can't rename('/sbin/.nfs00000000003efaa000000995~~tmp~usrmerge~~',
> >> '/sbin/.nfs00000000003efaa000000995'): Device or resource busy at
> >> /usr/lib/convert-usrmerge line 98
> > The .nfs* file is case of NFS silly rename, but I am not sure about why
> > it happens here: did you check what
> > /sbin/.nfs00000000003efaa000000995~~tmp~usrmerge~~ was?
> > Maybe there are possibile workarounds, but right now I do not have an
> > environment to test this. Since convert-usrmerge can be run in a chroot
> > on the NFS server maybe it would be easier to just make it fail if the
> > root is NFS-mounted.
>
> Yes that's is probably the easiest option
>...
I am raising the severity, since shipping usrmerge without anything like
that in stretch would cause problems for many users.
cu
Adrian
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