Bug 263884 – update to app-misc/uptimed-0.3.16-r3 : "Error writing bootid file, exiting!"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ernst Herzberg 2009-03-26 17:57:43 UTC]

After upgrading uptimed /var/spool/uptimed/* are still owned by root so no new bootid file is written.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-03-26 19:47:15 UTC]

Created attachment 186349 [details, diff]
uptimed-0.3.16-r3.ebuild.diff

How about something like this?

[Comment 2 Ernst Herzberg 2009-03-26 21:03:32 UTC]

Tested, problem fixed;-)

Should be applied asap, before it goes stable on x86? ;-)

[Comment 3 Ernst Herzberg 2009-03-26 22:43:51 UTC]

Wait. Sometimes "/var/spool/records" looks like:

-rw-r--r-- 1 uptimed uptimed  11 2009-03-17 18:29 bootid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root      0 2009-03-26 22:25 .keep_app-misc_uptimed-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    980 2009-03-26 22:29 records

I have updated uptimed, chown "by hand", later called "uprecords" (as root).
It is possible, that 0.3.16 updates the record-file? Will double check later,
there are still some machines to update...

[Comment 4 Ernst Herzberg 2009-03-27 01:42:54 UTC]

No, go ahead. Unable reproduce situation from Comment #3 on other machines. 

[Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-03-27 10:54:14 UTC]

Should be fixed now.

Thanks for the patch.