[6564] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu Dec 10 17:14:21 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:14:10 -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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Er, I meant "lenny," not "etch." I don't have Debian names committed to
memory.
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> 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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