Bug#549976: grub-pc: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[105716]) leaked on lvs invocation.

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 21:06 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Subject: grub-pc: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[105716]) leaked on lvs invocation.
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.97~beta4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> 
> Dear Debian hackers,
> 
> 
> upgrading DebPkg:grub-pc today the following was printed out to the
> terminal.
> 
>         Richte grub-pc ein (1.97~beta4-1) ...
>         Installation finished. No error reported.
>         This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
>         Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
>         fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
>         
>         (hd0)	/dev/sda
>         Generating grub.cfg ...
>         Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
>         Warning: update-grub_lib is deprecated, use grub-mkconfig_lib instead
>         Found linux image: …
>         […]
>         File descriptor 3 (pipe:[105716]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 21644: /bin/sh
>         done
> 
> I do not know, if this is related to DebPkg:os-prober and if it is a
> problem at all.
> 
> Please procced as you find appropriate.

Hi Paul,

Colin Watson commited now a fix to os-prober to silence them.
They don't cause any real problem.
But I don't close this report now, I check if we're leaking any file
descriptors.
Someone else on IRC reported today that even an inotify fd was leaked to
lvs, which is clearly not from us.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer