[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#681884: Bug#681884: Same problem with schroot 1.6.8-1

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:25:33PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone figure out from what we know so far if this is an schroot
> > but or a systemd bug?
> > 
> > If someone can give me a gentle nudge in the right direction I'm willing
> > to invest some time on this because I really do need this bug fixed.
> 
> Now I can't even re-produce this bug.
> 
> I'm still using schroot 1.6.8-1 with systemd 204-8 but upgrading something
> else (no clue what) seems to have fixed.
> 
> I have schroot working properly again. I'm very happy. If no one else can
> re-produce this then the bug should be closed.

There's definitely a bug here, in fact two bugs:

- systemd shouldn't be breaking things by altering defaults that have
  worked for over a decade, thereby breaking every user of mount --bind.
  This is utterly wrong.  mount --bind is in widespread use and, like it
  or not, there are thousands of programs and scripts that, unwittingly
  or not, depend upon the existing kernel default.

- schroot should be able to cope with the default being changed; there's
  a patch to do this; it just needs updating to work on non-Linux systems
  and I'll apply it.  The bits of the existing patch just need wrapping in
  "if(Linux)" conditionals.

I'll fix this in schroot of course, as I have for many minor portability
issues over the years.  I do have some rather bad things to say about
systemd's attitudes here, but I'll refrain from it here.


Regards,
Roger

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