Bug#45511: dpkg-source: random(?) permission(?) problems

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > joy:~/deb/xs$ dpkg-source -x xsol_0.31-2.dsc 
> > > dpkg-source: extracting xsol in xsol-0.31
> > > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> > > directories
> > > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
> > > access parent directories
> > 
> > Are you using a homedirectory from a NFS-server?
> 
> No. In both cases it is a completely normal ext2 partition, from the
> disk drive in that same machine.

This is not a dpkg-source bug.  I think it may be a bash bug.  I've
had it happen to me plenty of other times not with dpkg-source but
when running CD burning scripts, when doing random command line
things, etc.

-- 
James