* bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount @ 2015-07-08 12:18 Alex Sassmannshausen 2015-07-08 16:31 ` Andreas Enge 2015-07-14 12:03 ` Ludovic Courtès 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Alex Sassmannshausen @ 2015-07-08 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 21010 Hello, I'm running GuixSD. I tried to 'eject' a pen drive today using `sudo eject /mnt/usb` The command failed with -------8<---------------->8----------- eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb' eject: unmount of `/mnt/usb' failed -------8<---------------->8----------- Some more information: -------8<---------------->8----------- # which eject /run/current-system/profile/bin/eject # mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb # eject /mnt/usb eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb' eject: unmount of `/mnt/usb' failed -------8<---------------->8----------- HTH, let me know if you want me to test or provide anything else. Cheers, Alex ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount 2015-07-08 12:18 bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount Alex Sassmannshausen @ 2015-07-08 16:31 ` Andreas Enge 2015-07-08 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès 2015-07-14 12:03 ` Ludovic Courtès 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Andreas Enge @ 2015-07-08 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alex Sassmannshausen; +Cc: 21010 On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb' The culprit is in the source code of util-linux-2.25.2/sys-utils/eject.c: 681: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, "-n", NULL); 683: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, NULL); 685: errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unable to exec /bin/umount of `%s'"), name); This should be easy to patch, but there are other utilities with the same problem. A hopeless case seems to be "whereis": It looks for files in fixed lists of locations such as static const char *bindirs[] = { "/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/lib", "/usr/lib64", "/bin", "/sbin", "/etc", "/usr/etc", "/lib", "/lib64", "/usr/games", "/usr/games/bin", "/usr/games/lib", "/usr/emacs/etc", "/usr/lib/emacs/*/etc", "/usr/TeX/bin", ... Andreas ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount 2015-07-08 16:31 ` Andreas Enge @ 2015-07-08 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2015-07-08 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andreas Enge; +Cc: 21010 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: >> eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb' > > The culprit is in the source code of util-linux-2.25.2/sys-utils/eject.c: > 681: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, "-n", NULL); > 683: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, NULL); > 685: errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unable to exec /bin/umount of `%s'"), name); This should be fixed in core-updates. > This should be easy to patch, but there are other utilities with the same > problem. A hopeless case seems to be "whereis": It looks for files in fixed > lists of locations such as > static const char *bindirs[] = { > "/usr/bin", > "/usr/sbin", I think we should check what this list is used for, and then prepend entries accordingly. Volunteering? :-) Ludo’. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount 2015-07-08 12:18 bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount Alex Sassmannshausen 2015-07-08 16:31 ` Andreas Enge @ 2015-07-14 12:03 ` Ludovic Courtès 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2015-07-14 12:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alex Sassmannshausen; +Cc: 21010-done Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis: > I tried to 'eject' a pen drive today using > `sudo eject /mnt/usb` BTW, if you add this user account to “cdrom”, you won’t even need ‘sudo’. > The command failed with > -------8<---------------->8----------- > eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb' > eject: unmount of `/mnt/usb' failed > -------8<---------------->8----------- Fixed in 7e51249. Thanks! Ludo’. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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