Bug 454669

Summary: coda uses invalid group on 64-bit
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Goode <adam>
Component: codaAssignee: Adam Goode <adam>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Adam Goode 2008-07-09 16:41:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Since coda does not use posix groups for files, it attempts to assign all files
to nfsnobody, a standard group. This works on 32-bit machines, but not 64-bit.
It seems coda is internally somehow hardcoding 65534 instead of -2. Or possibly
nfsnobody is just broken on 64-bit in general, but no one has noticed.

This is likely a kernel problem, unless /etc/groups is wrong. Not sure yet.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coda-client-6.9.4-0.1.rc2.fc9.x86_64

Comment 1 Adam Goode 2008-09-01 03:57:30 UTC
This comes from the V_GID constant in venus.private.h.

We could do one of these:

  * Do a runtime check and get the gid for nfsnobody (adds dependencies on nfs-utils)

  * Patch the V_GID value on the systems that nfs-utils sets to 4294967294 (but see #455980). This also probably adds a dependency on nfs-utils.

Comment 2 Adam Goode 2008-09-01 04:01:11 UTC
Actually, maybe the thing to do is hardcode -2 in all cases, and let the linux kernel sort it out.

Comment 3 Adam Goode 2008-09-03 01:47:32 UTC
Other option: figure out why Fedora doesn't always have some group defined at 65534 like other systems.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 08:09:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 07:09:52 UTC
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