Bug 503931

Summary: Missing Lchown depedent perl module
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Coote <tim+redhat.com>
Component: rsnapshotAssignee: Chris Petersen <lists>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tim Coote 2009-06-03 12:39:55 UTC
Description of problem:
rsnapshot uses the perl module Lchown, presumably to adjust the ownership of symbolic links if these have been backed up. However, Lchown's not in the Fedora packages. I'm running rsnapshot on f9 and f10, but have only spotted the problem on f9 - the f10 use is very limited.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f9, rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.fc8.noarch (I'm pretty sure that this was a vanilla f9 install, so I'm guessing that's the f9 rpm.

How reproducible:
I've not managed to pin this down completely, but I get it everyday on my f9 box. Here's some extracts from /var/log/rsnapshot:
[31/May/2009:12:00:02] require Lchown
[31/May/2009:12:00:02] Lchown module not found
[31/May/2009:12:00:02] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[31/May/2009:12:00:02] Setting locale to POSIX "C"
[31/May/2009:12:00:02] echo 25222 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
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I've found references to this issue on other linux distros with the usual recommendation that one downloads the module from CPAN. Either such an install should be part of the setup, or all relevant dependencies should be included in the distro/updates.

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Additional info:
I've not had the time to work out the impact of this issue, nor to nail down where it's broken. If more info's needed, I'll dig it out.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 03:43:35 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:57:16 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 3 Tim Coote 2010-04-01 16:12:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
> no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
> security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.
> 
> If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
> Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.
> 
> Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.    

now that I've upgraded one machine to Fedora 11, the same bug's there.

As far as I can tell (and I haven't reproduced the detail, the impact of this error is that symlinks will have the wrong owner in backups, which is a potential security hole, I think.

I'm assuming that I'm doing the right thing by changing the state to assigned, rather than raising a complete new bug and copying the information over.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 14:38:26 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
'version' of '11'.

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please add a comment here and someone will do it for you.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:48:01 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.