Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-04-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-04-02 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >>The good news is that this seems to be fixed in 4.2.20. Could you >>perhaps verify this, by temporarily installing 4.2.20-1 from >>experimental? > Yes: 4.2.20 fixed it. Thank you for verifying this. I a

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-04-01 Thread Joachim Berdal Haga
Andreas Metzler wrote: This worked. The db I end up with after running updatedb directly is indeed incomplete. The good news is that this seems to be fixed in 4.2.20. Could you perhaps verify this, by temporarily installing 4.2.20-1 from experimental? Yes: 4.2.20 fixed it. Thanks, Jo. -- To UNSUBS

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-04-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
tags 301632 fixed-in-experimental thanks On 2005-03-30 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: [..] > This is my /etc/mtab. This one fails. Notice the placement of the "/foo > /bar" line; above (and including) this position it fails, below it works > fine. > /de

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-30 Thread Joachim Berdal Haga
Andreas Metzler wrote: If I add the original line again, it fails in the same way. If I then "mkdir /.dev" it works again. The same behaviour (ie. updatedb fails and truncates db) if I instead add "/foo /bar ext3 rw 0 0". Grr. I cannot reproduce this here. (running kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 2.6.8-1

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-03-28 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If I add the original line again, it fails in the same way. If I then > "mkdir /.dev" it works again. The same behaviour (ie. updatedb fails and > truncates db) if I instead add "/foo /bar ext3 rw 0 0". Grr. I cannot reproduce

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-28 Thread Joachim Berdal Haga
Andreas Metzler wrote: [snipalot] > I'd appreciate if you could do these tests: * remove the "/dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0"-line from /etc/mtab and reboot into your usual kernel. Check whether the broken line in mtab is regenerated. * If the line indeed is persistent make the same test with t

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-03-28 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>updatedb has stopped working (truncated db). No errors >>> [...] >>> which references this line in /etc/mtab: >>> /dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0 >> Is this a dead line in /etc/mtab? i.e. is the filesystem mounted >> (Please show /pr

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-27 Thread Joachim Berdal Haga
updatedb has stopped working (truncated db). No errors >> [...] >> which references this line in /etc/mtab: /dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0 Is this a dead line in /etc/mtab? i.e. is the filesystem mounted (Please show /proc/mounts)? This is /proc/mounts: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-03-27 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: findutils > Version: 4.1.20-5 > Severity: normal > updatedb has stopped working (truncated db). No errors > reported (from the cron job). Running manually, it says > /usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: /.dev: No such file o

Bug#301632: findutils: updatedb chokes on /.dev

2005-03-27 Thread Joachim Berdal Haga
Package: findutils Version: 4.1.20-5 Severity: normal updatedb has stopped working (truncated db). No errors reported (from the cron job). Running manually, it says /usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: /.dev: No such file or directory which references this line in /etc/mtab: /dev /.dev unkno