[Piuparts-devel] Bug#466102: piuparts: mishandles lsof warnings in a chroot

[Marc Haber]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.30
Severity: normal

Hi,

when piuparts is invoked in a chroot, it gets confused by lsof which
is in turn confused by /proc/mounts containing path names that are not
valid inside the chroot, causing lsof to print warnings:

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() devpts file system /mnt/bigstuff/home/mh/chroot/sid-packages/dev/pts
        Output information may be incomplete.

This could be remedied in piuparts by adding the "-w" option to the
lsof call. I do not know whether this is a bug in lsof, but it can be
worked around in piuparts.

Greetings
Marc, hating lsof with a passion

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  apt                        0.7.10        Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debootstrap                1.0.8         Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                3.1-24        Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  python                     2.4.4-6       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-debian              0.1.9         python modules to work with Debian

piuparts recommends no packages.

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