[ITA] _autorebase
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Dec 14 22:35:00 GMT 2014
On 12/14/2014 3:48 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> The changes look good, and it works fine on an existing installation.
>> But there's a problem with a new installation. The autorebase
>> postinstall script seems to hang in one of the calls to "find", which
>> I finally killed through the Task Manager. /var/log/setup.log.full is
>> full of error messages like
>
> Great find, I've had that happen once before, but couldn't debug it at
> the time. But it's clear now: I forgot to check if find has a path
> argument to chew on. Otherwise it implicitly uses ./ and since it gets
> started in / it descends into /proc/registry. I've now both test for
> the empty path and added "-xdev" to the options so find won't try to
> cross the filesystem boundaries.
>
> Packages fixed and replaced.
That fixed it.
Ken
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