Debdiff for devel release Artful.
** Patch added: "lp1709670-logrotate-artful.debdiff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1709670/+attachment/4929643/+files/lp1709670-logrotate-artful.debdiff
** Tags added: patch
** Changed in: logrotate (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: logrotate (Ubuntu Zesty)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: logrotate (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709670
Title:
logrotate never recovers if the statefile is corrupted
Status in logrotate package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in logrotate source package in Trusty:
Confirmed
Status in logrotate source package in Xenial:
Confirmed
Status in logrotate source package in Zesty:
Confirmed
Status in logrotate source package in Artful:
In Progress
Status in logrotate package in Debian:
Unknown
Bug description:
[Impact]
logrotate never recovers if the statefile is corrupted unless you remove it
or fix the corruption by hand.
System will eventually run out of disk space on /var/log for instance.
[Test Case]
- Install logrotate
- Run "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" ## The first logrotate run will generate
the statefile "var/lib/logrotate/status"
- Modify "/var/lib/logrotate/status" by removing the first line in order to
corrupt the file
- Re-run "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" and one will get the following error :
"error: bad top line in state file /var/lib/logrotate/status" every time you
run logrotate
Unless you remove the statefile and start again or fix the corruption
by hand.
[Regression Potential]
* Risk of potential regression is low, and couldn' be worst than the actual
situation where logrotate doesn't recover from a corrupt statefile.
The current patch does recover (after verification)
[Other Info]
* Upstream commit:
https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/commit/b9d82003002c98370e4131a7e43c76afcd23306a
* Upstream bug:
https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/issues/45
* Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871592
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