[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#463343: schroot: Does not end sessions automatically.

[Carlo Wood]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.1.5-1.1
Severity: important

I've been using schroot as:  $ schroot -c sid32
for some time. At some point 'locate' stopped
working - I didn't know why.  The reason, in the
end, turns out to be that updatedb aborts silently
when the tmp partition used by sort runs full.
As a result of schroot never closing sessions,
the amount of files that updatedb found resulted
in a tmp file of 8GB!

At this moment I have:

hikaru:~>ls /var/lib/schroot/mount
sid32-11e8d299-cb3f-4991-bbf3-9e6d300260a2/
sid32-141009d2-97dc-472b-9e32-7b98ba7a9abf/
sid32-1dd09ea0-3a35-419b-9ac6-a3df279af0bd/
sid32-1fffb5c9-2b1c-4019-a8f8-eb0047e916a5/
sid32-22dcf5cc-eea4-4294-a150-8a8a91306734/
sid32-2e4b07cd-5157-42bd-a41a-81d3a68964c8/
sid32-32afbf8a-1931-4707-b22b-a6f2b6c63b19/
sid32-3ac7451d-b19a-42af-9413-57eb787315e1/
sid32-4af4ece3-1a83-40c0-92cc-21e2ac501076/
sid32-4b75b6b6-b3a5-49d2-8cf2-85b99149059f/
sid32-526c633c-5a1c-47cd-97eb-658f775f7ffc/
sid32-52a74b46-ba3a-4759-8f9a-e35865ce8a34/
sid32-549a7233-b621-4547-8ff7-ea1f1d9792ae/
sid32-56633f72-5037-4b9e-a576-d1c08f6db3e3/
sid32-56786030-90ea-433d-8af5-19cdce66e74d/
sid32-5a531ecb-1ea2-41d6-959b-ae3d66fe47fa/
sid32-5b07e7b1-3538-4fc8-93a6-1b24a0664f82/
sid32-5e20524c-5f30-41dc-95f5-568b02078f2d/
sid32-67a8c56e-a29e-4d4e-8395-4b61e3ac3851/
sid32-6c56ee9a-0dfd-4bb3-bce2-d110c238bdf7/
sid32-6cbac6f3-5f47-478a-a110-2f74a70934a4/
sid32-7474bbc8-74c9-41eb-8b2f-cb1c1968883d/
sid32-92a8d79c-ba88-44cf-a118-585108dc72ff/
sid32-94a6ced1-c7f1-4e1d-9e4a-7e86e3c10857/
sid32-9a8fdccb-6f29-46f8-9591-5ace3910673f/
sid32-9eadb480-dbf2-42c6-90eb-09624475c525/
sid32-a2a1e8c2-24ad-4a36-b9a9-80f1a5de8820/
sid32-a32166ae-5421-4299-92c5-4630a9535bbd/
sid32-ac8efea1-8489-41d2-853a-988f5657dd87/
sid32-add8e4e3-48bd-4dbd-b558-536129b37dcf/
sid32-bd3fbfca-6d43-40ba-b4e5-150e6b450183/
sid32-be5ab2ff-df56-4fa2-8864-5495b3223a71/
sid32-c1c2db1e-7eed-45ba-be9c-7e15f84448f3/
sid32-c84448a9-0a57-4c2a-9a41-c60e0591ba06/
sid32-df306a93-1d63-494d-a726-c924190900c6/
sid32-e40363ba-aa87-4e83-ab2a-d71193d8837a/
sid32-e5921bf6-0d5b-4c0a-bb7a-82240c01ad66/
sid32-e68548a8-1987-4006-acce-262b28df3ff1/
sid32-fa2a26d0-6430-4737-835d-b2d988c5dc1f/

I have no idea why the sessions aren't closed.
I just run, from the command line, schroot -c sid32
and when I'm done in 32bit mode, I exit again
to return to my 64bit shell that I started
schroot from.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-program-option 1.34.1-2         program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1    1.34.1-2         regular expression library for C++
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1             1.0.3-1.2        Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                0.99.7.1-5       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080116-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                1.40.3-1         universally unique id library
ii  schroot-common          1.1.5-1.1        common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

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