Bug#342305: eclipse: today installation erase all data in /usr/local/lib

[Steve Langasek]

clone 342305 -1
reassign -1 eclipse-rcp 3.1.1-6
severity -1 serious
retitle -1 eclipse-rcp: prerm script fails if directories are not empty
thanks

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:00:12AM +0100, Encolpe Degoute wrote:
> | Sorry, this is completely not reproducible here.  The eclipse-rcp package
> | *creates* directories under /usr/local/ib; there is no code in the package
> | postinst that would remove anything.

> | Have you upgraded other packages recently that could have been to
> | blame for removing /usr/local/lib?

> In fact, the symbolic link /usr/local was delete and only eclipse stuff
> was in it.

Well, there's no code that I can see in eclipse that would touch a
/usr/local symlink.

> I can't replay it to give you more informations:

> root at gosseyn:~# LANG=C apt-get install --reinstall eclipse-rcp
> Reading package lists... 0%
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 86 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/19.1kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> (Reading database ... 364668 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace eclipse-rcp 3.1.1-6 (using
> .../eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> ~ subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ~ /var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Heh, now that's a bug I can confirm; the prerm will fail because it calls
rmdir on directories that may not be empty, and doesn't trap the errors.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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