Bug#268024: marked as done (bash: test -e gives wrong exit code)
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Subject: bash: test -e gives wrong exit code
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Package: bash
Version: 2.05b-15
Severity: important
Severity might be even release-critical, because it breaks maintainer
scripts, but it is probably in an other package. I just have no idea
how to find out which.
In a pbuilder chroot just upgraded from woody to testing I get:
bin/bash-2.05a# ls -li /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
914717 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 25 14:50
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat ->
/etc/texmf/language.dat
bin/bash-2.05a# test -e /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat || echo "not found"
not found
bin/bash-2.05a# dpkg -l bash
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
ii bash 2.05b-15 The GNU Bourne Again
SHell
/usr/bin/test, and "test -f" gives the same behavior, but it might be
the same bug in both implemenations, or the bug might be in the
filesystem. The problem does not occur for every symlink:
bin/bash-2.05a# test -e /etc/alternatives/pager || echo "not found"
bin/bash-2.05a# s -li /etc/alternatives/pager
426822 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 25 14:44 /etc/alternatives/pager
-> /bin/more
bin/bash-2.05a#
Puzzled, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1 Debian base system
miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for
terminal hand
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Re: Bug#268024: bash: test -e gives wrong exit code
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Adeodato Sim=F3 <asp16@alu.ua.es> wrote:
> * Matthias Klose [Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:25:15 +0200]:
>
>> not reproducible on two unstable and one testing system. any hints?
>
>> Frank K=FCster writes:
>
>> > In a pbuilder chroot just upgraded from woody to testing I get:
>
>> > bin/bash-2.05a# ls -li /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.da=
t=20
>> > 914717 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 25 14:50
>> > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat ->
>> > /etc/texmf/language.dat
>> > bin/bash-2.05a# test -e /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.d=
at || echo "not found"
>> > not found
>
> <i-don't-mind-looking-stupid>
> nothing in that output proves that /etc/texmf/language.dat does
> actually exist. any chances of it not being present for some reason?
> </>
Arrgh. Thank you - of course /etc/texmf/language.dat does not exist, and
I knew that. Big thinko on my side.
Bye, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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