Bug 69227
| Summary: | bash shell in mc hangs or mc refuses to start for normal user | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla> |
| Component: | mc | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-07-22 17:20:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Leonard den Ottolander
2002-07-19 10:02:25 UTC
Some digging rendered the following result: The problem seems to be an incompatibilty with util-linux-2.11f-17. If I downgrade util-linux to 2-10s-12 the problem dissapears. Note that the problem does not always appear for each user, and when it appears it takes different forms: either mc hangs when running shell commands or after pressing ^o a couple of times, or mc refuses to start up at all. In either case mc has to be killed using kill <pid>. It's nice this issue might be fixed in Rawhide (see bug #57538), but maybe it is a good idea to release an upgraded util-linux package for 7.1? No need to upgrade to Rawhide due to a broken update is it? The only solution seems to be upgrading to RH 7.3's mc-4.5.55-5 (and dev-3.3-4) (or downgrading util-linux to 2.10s-12). Upgrading to util-linux-2.11n-12 didn't make a difference, nor recompiling mc on the updated system. Very weird util-linux seems to break these versions of mc (4.5.51-32 & -36) on RH 7.1, but updating util-linux doesn't solve anything. By the way, what happened to mcserv and gmc in 7.3? I guess this is a util-linux issue? While I'm not denying the effects you saw by changing util-linux versions, I don't see how util-linux is involved. I don't know how exactly this problem relates to util-linux, but fact of the matter is that it's the upgrade to util-linux-2-11f-17 (or 2-11n-12 for that matter) that breaks mc. Downdating util-linux to 2-10s-12 and leaving all the other updates in place makes the problem with mc dissappear. So maybe after all it is a bug in mc, but for sure it is somehow related to util-linux. Now you tell me why ;). I haven't been able to figure it out in the last few days, and mind you, I've spend some time investigating this bugger. Maybe I'll look in to it a little more. *** Bug 69321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** /bin/login seems to be the culprit: # rpm -q util-linux util-linux-2-10s-12 # cp /bin/login /bin/login.000 # rpm -Uv util-linux-2-11f-17 # mv /bin/login /bin/login.001 # cp /bin/login.000 /bin/login Now the problem does not occur. OK, perhaps mc is broken for invoking /bin/login - it should probably just run the shell, yuk. At least I know where the problem is, thanks! You're welcome :-). Note that the problem does not exist any more in mc-4.5.55-5 (7.1 + updates + dev-3.3-4 + mc-4.5.55-5 works fine). oh, this means I can ignore the bug because rawhide fixes it! :) This probably isn't an issue that we'd release an erratum for, and since it sounds to be fixed by the mc in rawhide (and indeed the one in 7.3), there shouldn't be any problems left to resolve I hope. Hm. I don't know about Red Hat's policy about supporting older releases, but it seems a bit strange that you have a bug fix that creates a new problem and there is not even an announcement on how to solve it. But hey, that's for you to decide about ;). By the way, changing this back to mc if that is still possible. Leaves me with the unanswered question what happened to gmc & mcserv... |