Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 20:56 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.08.2010, 10:40 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: > > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 00:05 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > $ grep vmlinuz /tmp/squeeze.cfg > > > kernel = "/tmp/vmlinuz" > > > $ sudo xm create /tmp/

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Mittwoch, den 11.08.2010, 10:40 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 00:05 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 10.08.2010, 15:10 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: > > > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:40 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 09:19 + schri

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 00:05 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 10.08.2010, 15:10 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: > > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:40 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 09:19 + schrieb Ian Campbell: > > > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagne

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 10.08.2010, 15:10 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:40 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 09:19 + schrieb Ian Campbell: > > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > > > > > > The guest is the Debian Installer da

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:40 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 09:19 + schrieb Ian Campbell: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > > > > The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much > > > better than I do. :) The host i

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 09:19 + schrieb Ian Campbell: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > > The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much > > better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel: I am using Lenny with a

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:56 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Ian Campbell writes: >> >>> For Lenny you could workaround by downloading the kernel and ramdisk >>> locally and use the install-kernel= and install-ramdisk= options to >>> xm-debian.cfg, or if you have a local

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:56 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >> The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much > >> better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel:

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much >> better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel: > > I think the issue is with the host's Xen utilities rather than

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much > better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel: I think the issue is with the host's Xen utilities rather than the Debian Installer image whi

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:46 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> The current code in xm-debian.cfg uses Python-managed temporary files, >> which are unlinked too early (in parallel with the RPC call). I can't >> recommend a good solution, and maybe it's already fixed in the c

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:46 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > The current code in xm-debian.cfg uses Python-managed temporary files, > which are unlinked too early (in parallel with the RPC call). I can't > recommend a good solution, and maybe it's already fixed in the current > (version 3.4) tools

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny4 Severity: normal Hi, I encountered this while testing daily snapshots under Xen 3.2 with long extra command lines (you may consider this sort of preseeding stupid, but that's not the point now): $ sudo xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true ins