[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#905151: Bug#905151: ocfs2-tools: small DEP8 change to avoid broken pipe error

[Valentin Vidic]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 06:25:10PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> at some point we in Ubuntu started having an error with the
> ocfs2-tools test that happened in the "basic" test when running
> fsck.ocfs2 in the image file. The error was about a broken pipe. I
> can't find a link to an example right now, I'm afraid.
> 
> We then changed that line from this:
> yes | fsck.ocfs2 -f -y -F $DISK 2>&1
> 
> to this:
> echo yes | fsck.ocfs2 -f -y -F $DISK 2>&1
> 
> And that immediately got rid of the problem. We believe that "yes" was
> "too insistent" and was writing to the pipe after it was closed, or
> something like that.
> 
> The broken pipe error was never seen in debian's ci for this package,
> as far as I know, but we would kindly ask you to consider this change
> to the debian package. At the moment, this is the only delta this
> package in Ubuntu has with Debian, and it may make this test more
> robust.

Thanks for reporting the problem, will include this fix in the next
package release.

-- 
Valentin