Bug 759565

Summary:	net-fs/cifs-utils-6.11 unable to mount with error "Unable to apply new capability set"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	email200202
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aion1223, ao, bkohler, KyleJ61782, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	759550
Bug Blocks:

Description email200202 2020-12-12 08:33:29 UTC

After update to sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.8.2, cifs failed to mount with error message:
# mount /mnt/some_cifs/
Unable to apply new capability set.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync; emerge -auvDN world
2. mount /mnt/some_cifs/

Actual Results:  
it failed

Expected Results:  
should not fail

Comment 1 email200202 2020-12-12 08:43:09 UTC

It worked when sys-libs/libcap-ng was downgraded from 0.8.2 to 0.8

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2020-12-13 01:10:21 UTC

*** Bug 759688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2020-12-13 01:13:00 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4ca4382ca9ff930c32be7bad930eb0c415bae4d2

commit 4ca4382ca9ff930c32be7bad930eb0c415bae4d2
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-12-13 01:11:45 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-12-13 01:11:45 +0000

    profiles/package.mask: mask =sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.8.2
    
    Seems to still break consumers. Unsure about applying
    the patch used in Fedora given that upstream have
    cut a new release since and not included both
    of the fixes previously being applied there.
    
    Masking for now while we decide on a way forward.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/759565
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/759550
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/759688
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)