Bug#577978: crosshurd: installation of Hurd hangs

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

reassign 577978 tar
merge 577978 576876
thanks

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:33:05PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> | Fetched 38.2MB in 1min 1s (627kB/s)
> | Download complete and in download only mode
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5.3_hurd-i386.deb...
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.22_hurd-i386.deb...
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-3_hurd-i386.deb...
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.16.2-0_hurd-i386.deb...
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_7.5-6_hurd-i386.deb...
> | I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-3_hurd-i386.deb...
> 
> It looks like there are some issues with handling /bin/sh symlink:
> 
> # pstree -A -a -p 6251
> crosshurd,6251 /usr/sbin/crosshurd
>   `-makehurddir.sh,6298 /usr/share/crosshurd/makehurddir.sh /media/pendrive/ i486 gnu
>       `-makehurddir.sh,7018 /usr/share/crosshurd/makehurddir.sh /media/pendrive/ i486 gnu
>           `-tar,7179 -xkf -
> 
> # strace -p 7179
> Process 7179 attached - interrupt to quit
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> symlink("dash", "./bin/sh")             = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> [and so on...]

Turns out this is bug #576876 in tar, reverting to 1.22-2 or earlier
makes this problem go away.


Cheers,

Michael