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Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

This continues #219 and ATN-41.

Geoff sent a patch to kernel.org, which was rejected. Relevant threads are  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/9/74 and  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/30/211

It's fairly clear from the POSIX spec (see the "ERRORS" section of  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html) that the current kernel behavior of ENOENT when /lib/ld-linux.so.1 doesn't exist is wrong, and that it should be ENOEXEC or EINVAL.

Note the paragraph under RATIONALE which begins "One common historical implementation is that the execl(), execv(), execle(), and execve() functions return an [ENOEXEC] error...".

We should follow up and point out that the current behavior does not conform to POSIX. They may or may not decide to care.

Reported by kchen, 15 years ago.

I get daily mail from two Debathena machines with:

/etc/cron.daily/debathena-lprng: 2010-01-06-06:28:43.020 abra Init_tempfile: bad tempdir '/var/spool/lpd/%P'

One is a jaunty machine, and one is a hardy machine. (Hmm... actually, I haven't gotten mail from the jaunty machine in half a month, but it's possible MIT is eating it. I'll focus this bug report on the hardy machine, which is still sending me mail.)

kchen@abra:~$ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/debathena-lprng -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1241 2008-06-17 13:50 /etc/cron.daily/debathena-lprng

kchen@abra:~$ dpkg -l debathena-lprng* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold? | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg?-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst?-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

+++-=============================================-=============================================-========================================================================================================== ii debathena-lprng 3.8.28dfsg.1-1.1ubuntu2debathena5~ubuntu8.04 lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii debathena-lprng-config 1.8~ubuntu8.04 Printing configuration for Debathena ii debathena-lprng-no-server-config 1.3~ubuntu8.04 Remove lprng's cron job and init script

It looks like debathena-lprng-no-server-config is supposed to remove the cron job. One thing I just noticed is:

kchen@abra:~$ dpkg -S debathena-lprng-no-server-config | grep diversion diversion by debathena-lprng-no-server-config from: /etc/cron.daily/lprng diversion by debathena-lprng-no-server-config to: /usr/share/debathena-lprng-no-server-config/etc++cron.daily++lprng

Should /etc/cron.daily/debathena-lprng be diverted in addition to /etc/cron.daily/lprng? Or not installed? (I don't actually know what the cron job is supposed to do... I just know it sends me mail with an error every day.)

Reported by broder, 15 years ago.

Right now, if anything triggers a dpkg conffile conflict, auto-update will hang indefinitely. Not the best failure mode.

On cluster machines, since we are the sysadmin, we should be passing -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew to aptitude.