Debian Bug report logs - #575070
Exclusive read-write lock in file db driver breaks running debconf as non-root

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Heinlein <devel@glatzor.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Exclusive read-write lock in file db driver breaks running debconf as non-root

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:36:57 +0100

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.29
Severity: normal

Hello,

In aptdaemon we use debconf-communicate running in the user session and
the passthrough backend for the actual installation to show the debconf
questions to the user.

With the new required read write lock on the file backends (which are
the default) debconf-communicate refuses to run as non-root and so
breaks debconf handling in aptdaemon.

Furthermore it is no longer possible to test config scripts as non-root
with using DEBCONF_DEB_REPLACE which I did before.

Cheers,

Sebastian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.5.29     full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base                     5.10.1-11  minimal Perl system

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils                     0.7.25.3   APT utility programs

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii  debconf-doc               1.5.29         debconf documentation
ii  debconf-utils             1.5.29         debconf utilities
ii  dialog                    1.1-20100119-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gnome-utils               2.28.1-1       GNOME desktop utilities
ii  libgnome2-perl            1.042-2        Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  libnet-ldap-perl          1:0.39-1       client interface to LDAP servers
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none>         (no description available)
ii  perl                      5.10.1-11      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-8      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- debconf-show failed

Message #10 received at 575070-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 575070-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#575070: fixed in debconf 1.5.30

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:32:30 +0000

Source: debconf
Source-Version: 1.5.30

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debconf-doc_1.5.30_all.deb
  to main/d/debconf/debconf-doc_1.5.30_all.deb
debconf-english_1.5.30_all.deb
  to main/d/debconf/debconf-english_1.5.30_all.deb
debconf-i18n_1.5.30_all.deb
  to main/d/debconf/debconf-i18n_1.5.30_all.deb
debconf-utils_1.5.30_all.deb
  to main/d/debconf/debconf-utils_1.5.30_all.deb
debconf_1.5.30.dsc
  to main/d/debconf/debconf_1.5.30.dsc
debconf_1.5.30.tar.gz
  to main/d/debconf/debconf_1.5.30.tar.gz
debconf_1.5.30_all.deb
  to main/d/debconf/debconf_1.5.30_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 575070@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated debconf package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:18:00 +0000
Source: debconf
Binary: debconf debconf-i18n debconf-english debconf-doc debconf-utils
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.5.30
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debconf Developers <debconf-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 debconf    - Debian configuration management system
 debconf-doc - debconf documentation
 debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf
 debconf-i18n - full internationalization support for debconf
 debconf-utils - debconf utilities
Closes: 575070
Changes: 
 debconf (1.5.30) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Don't open file databases read-write if the database is read-only, or if
     the file isn't writable (e.g. running debconf as non-root).  Closes:
     #575070
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