Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:32:20PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Sat 12. May, 21:41 (+0200): > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > Do you plan a new release with this patch? > > > > I was hoping someone would test the change with dash first. > > I

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hello Ziga, hello Guus, Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Sat 12. May, 21:41 (+0200): > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Do you plan a new release with this patch? > > I was hoping someone would test the change with dash first. I couldn't reproduce this bug. Maybe the submitter o

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Do you plan a new release with this patch? I was hoping someone would test the change with dash first. The patch is now in Subversion. > Is svn.sf.net down? Probably just a temporary issue with SourceForge, should work fine now. -- Ziga

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hello Ziga, Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Mon 07. May, 18:32 (+0200): > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 13:57 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Yes, if you _use_ an initrd. What about mounting the proc filesystem in > > bootchartd? I've checked Debian's init scripts and they are aware of a > > mounted procfs—at leas

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 13:57 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Wed 18. Apr, 13:23 (+0200): > > I don't expect this to be problem. I've tested bootchartd with an > > unmounted /proc and the log_output functions would simply not log > > anything. As soon as /proc becomes available

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hello Ziga, sorry for the late reply. Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Wed 18. Apr, 13:23 (+0200): > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:23 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Sun 15. Apr, 02:30 (+0200): > > > How about we avoid the udev problem (missing /dev/null) by starting the > > > loggers b

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:23 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Sun 15. Apr, 02:30 (+0200): > > How about we avoid the udev problem (missing /dev/null) by starting the > > loggers before udev is started? > > Yes, this might be another way to go. But didn't we get errors because >

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hi Ziga, Ziga Mahkovec schrieb am Sun 15. Apr, 02:30 (+0200): > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 02:15 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > [...] > > For job control bootchart needs a heavy rewrite, but I also think it can > > gain something. The other way is to try to redirect the shell error to > > /dev/null.

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 02:15 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hello Guus, hello Ziga Hi Jörg (and sorry for the late reply), > [...] > And there you see, dash tries to open /dev/null. The corresponding code > is the following: (dash-0.5.3/src/jobs.c) Thanks for getting to the bottom of this! > [...]

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hello Guus, hello Ziga I found the problem. Guus Sliepen schrieb am Tue 27. Mar, 12:46 (+0200): > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:23:36PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > > The patch didn't work. I then reinstalled the original script, but > > > removed all redirections to /dev/null. It still complain

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:23:36PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > The patch didn't work. I then reinstalled the original script, but > > removed all redirections to /dev/null. It still complains about not > > being able to open /dev/null. > > Oh, can you add a set -x before the PATH assignment and

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hallo Guus, Guus Sliepen schrieb am Wed 21. Mar, 10:59 (+0100): > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > Hallo Guus, > > > > Jörg Sommer schrieb am Sat 24. Feb, 12:29 (+0100): > > > Guus Sliepen schrieb am Tue 20. Feb, 15:40 (+0100): > > > > After booting a few times

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hallo Guus, > > Jörg Sommer schrieb am Sat 24. Feb, 12:29 (+0100): > > Guus Sliepen schrieb am Tue 20. Feb, 15:40 (+0100): > > > After booting a few times I noticed that it sometimes works OK, but most > > > of the time it doesn't. I

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Hi Guus, Hi Ziga, Guus Sliepen schrieb am Tue 20. Feb, 15:40 (+0100): > After booting a few times I noticed that it sometimes works OK, but most > of the time it doesn't. I guess it's caused by udev mounting a tmpfs > over /dev, which makes /dev empty for a short interval. Perhaps you > should cre

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 12:23 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Please apply the same fix to the Debian package, or remove the > bashisms from the script. I recently got a similar report[1], but didn't get enough information to get to the bottom of this (and I don't have access to a dash-based system).

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

Package: bootchart Version: 0.9-4 Severity: important I just installed bootchartd on a machine where /bin/sh points to dash. When booting, bootchartd claims not to be able to write to /dev/null and does not log anything. At first I thought my static /dev directory was broken, but that was not the

Bug#411654: bootchartd only works if /bin/sh is bash

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote: > Not being able to write to /dev/null could imply a timing problem. > Could you please try adding the following to /sbin/bootchartd, at the > start of the start() function (line 41): > >while [ ! -w /dev/null ]; do sleep $SAMPLE_