[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#545706: 'schroot' exits with code 0 on 'permission denied' failures

[Nelson Elhage]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.2.2-0+lenny1
Severity: normal


Running schroot commands on a chroot that the current user does not
have permission to access results in schroot failing, but exiting with
a code of 0. This is annoying, as it means that scripts that use
schroot with a user-provided chroot name cannot easily determine
whether operations succeeded.

[nelhage at lunatique:~]$ schroot -c i386_sid
E: Access not authorised
I: You do not have permission to access the schroot service.
I: This failure will be reported.
[nelhage at lunatique:~]$ echo $?
0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 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-filesystem1.34.1 1.34.1-14      filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-program-options1 1.34.1-14      program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1      1.34.1-14      regular expression library for C++
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.3.2-1.1    GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1               1.0.3-1.2+b1   Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                  1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                4.3.2-1.1      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                  1.41.3-1       universally unique id library
ii  schroot-common            1.2.2-0+lenny1 common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages schroot suggests:
ii  debootstrap                 1.0.10lenny1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lvm2                        2.02.39-7    The Linux Logical Volume Manager
ii  unzip                       5.52-12      De-archiver for .zip files

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