bug#58048: The boot process can't delete old /tmp when it contains non-UTF-8 file names

bug#58048: The boot process can't delete old /tmp when it contains non-UTF-8 file names

[Maxime Devos]

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Will try to catch the exact warning message and write a reproducer at 
the next boot, for now I write it here before I forget about it.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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bug#58048: The boot process can't delete old /tmp when it contains non-UTF-8 file names

[Maxime Devos]

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On 24-09-2022 23:12, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Will try to catch the exact warning message and write a reproducer at 
> the next boot, for now I write it here before I forget about it.

Two reproducers:

(1) Compile ripgrep and somehow let it fail (but after it creates 
non-UTF-8 file names), reboot, "ls /tmp"
(2) Run touch /tmp/OOPS-$(echo -e '\xff')-OOPS, reboot, "ls /tmp"

I didn't see the warning this time though.

Greetings,
Maxime.


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bug#58048: The boot process can't delete old /tmp when it contains non-UTF-8 file names

[Ludovic Courtès]

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

> On 24-09-2022 23:12, Maxime Devos wrote:
>> Will try to catch the exact warning message and write a reproducer
>> at the next boot, for now I write it here before I forget about it.
>
> Two reproducers:
>
> (1) Compile ripgrep and somehow let it fail (but after it creates
> non-UTF-8 file names), reboot, "ls /tmp"
> (2) Run touch /tmp/OOPS-$(echo -e '\xff')-OOPS, reboot, "ls /tmp"

The culprit would be ‘cleanup-gexp’ in (gnu services).  It keeps going
upon ‘system-error’ (like ENOENT), but it could be that you’re getting
‘encoding-error’ in this case.

In that case, ‘fail-safe’ should also catch this.

We can extend ‘%test-cleanup’ in (gnu tests base) to exercise this.

Would you like to give it a spin?

Ludo’.

bug#58048: The boot process can't delete old /tmp when it contains non-UTF-8 file names

[Maxime Devos]

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On 26-09-2022 17:48, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> 
>> On 24-09-2022 23:12, Maxime Devos wrote:
>>> Will try to catch the exact warning message and write a reproducer
>>> at the next boot, for now I write it here before I forget about it.
>>
>> Two reproducers:
>>
>> (1) Compile ripgrep and somehow let it fail (but after it creates
>> non-UTF-8 file names), reboot, "ls /tmp"
>> (2) Run touch /tmp/OOPS-$(echo -e '\xff')-OOPS, reboot, "ls /tmp"
> 
> The culprit would be ‘cleanup-gexp’ in (gnu services).  It keeps going
> upon ‘system-error’ (like ENOENT), but it could be that you’re getting
> ‘encoding-error’ in this case.
> 
> In that case, ‘fail-safe’ should also catch this.
> 
> We can extend ‘%test-cleanup’ in (gnu tests base) to exercise this.
> 
> Would you like to give it a spin?

Yes, just not yet (low priority, doesn't block the boot, just a bit 
annoying).

Greetings,
Maxime.

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