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Re: Interesting dpkg issue, plus thoughts...

From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> Klee says that a bug exists, not that this problem is that bug.

His discription was that the program used getlogin() to find the user name,
and would fail in the way you described if there was no utmp entry present.
He said he would modify it to fall back on getuid().

> The fact that the same version of dpkg works on one system and fails on a
> different system, strongly suggests that some other package...perl,
> bash, something else...has changed its functionality in such a way as to
> cause the dpkg script to fail.

There are many ways to exercise this bug. Probably running "script" would
do it, because there would be no utmp entry for the pseudo-tty. Running in
a mixed libc5 and libc6 environment might well do it, because it corrupts
utmp with some versions of libc6. Running under kernel 2.1.43 seems to do
it on my system sometimes, because 2.1.43 has broken the filesystem slightly.

> I thought that it was perfectly clear from the information that I
> presented about this behavior that it wasn't a dpkg bug. That was the
> premise of the rest of my discussion.

I understood your premise, but your premise was wrong. :-)

	Thanks

	Bruce
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