[6563] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu Dec 10 17:10:09 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:10:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>,
release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
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Given that dr-wily is running etch, not jaunty, the apples-to-apples
comparison is harder to draw. I have to base the comparison to other
Ubuntu installs, where I found that gfvs-fuse is there. Since installing
it "magically" fixed it, I can only assume it was a hidden requirement
after the last kernel upgrade that rw took, which contain some code
specifically to fix interfacing with fuse. If I get really that bored,
I'll try to figure out if it's needed later, but I'm content with "I can
see my home directory reliably."
Running attach setuid is the same as our current dialups. I'll look into
changing its bits back. Just doing it breaks a couple of things that I
will look into shortly.
And you're right about dpkg-statoverride. When you have to actively
switch between OSes all day long, you forget about weird OS-specific
details, especially given that these boxes are going to be "snowflakes" in
our otherwise all RedHat Linux environment.
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
>> Oddly enough, gvfs-fuse fell out of the packages that rw had installed,
>> so it wasn't able to initialize the python libraries needed. After
>> reinstalling, the daemon was able to start.
>
> gvfs-fuse isn’t required for pyhesiodfs. It is not installed on linerva,
> either. Do you still have the error you got before?
>
> I see that you made /bin/attach setuid root instead of setgid attach.
> You probably did that because the automounter wasn’t working, but now you
> should revert that change; attach needs to run as the user in Debathena.
>
> In general, though, changes to the default setuid and setgid bits (e.g.
> /usr/bin/screen) should be managed with dpkg-statoverride(8) so they don’t
> get reverted on package upgrades.
>
> Anders
>
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