Bug 114778

Summary:	eselect env update hangs if binary file in /etc/env.d
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roy Marples (RETIRED) <uberlord>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo eselect Team <eselect>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	stops env working on core files and opengl outputs errors now

Description Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-07 10:14:42 UTC

OK, somehow there was a core dump in /etc/env.d and this was causing eselect 
env update to go into an infinite loop. 
Nastily, this was hidden by the command "eselect opengl set xorg-x11" - bad 
opengl, should always output errors to stderr!

Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-07 10:15:56 UTC

Created attachment 74239 [details, diff]
stops env working on core files and opengl outputs errors now

Ideally there should be a better way of testing binary files or not, but this
works for me.

Comment 2 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-18 15:58:07 UTC

Roy: I used a slightly different approach than yours. Using "file -i" and grepping
for text plain should do the work. Further, if a files doesn't contain any vars,
we'll just not process it.

In SVN already, fix will ship with next release (hopefully eselect-1.0).

Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2006-02-09 17:58:45 UTC

In 1.0.