[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#539116: ltsp-server: garbage in output of ltsp-build-client

[Andre Majorel]

Package: ltsp-server
Version: 5.1.73-1
Severity: normal

Dear ltsp-server maintainer,

running ltsp-build-client &>log creates a file containing a long
run of NULs and possibly out of order text :

  http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/bugs/ltsp-build-client-sid1.out.gz

The same file with the 90526 NULs replaced by repeats of the string
"(90526 NULs)" :

  http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/bugs/ltsp-build-client-sid1text.out.gz

This is reproducible. The only way I've found to get a proper log
file is :

  ltsp-build-client 2>&1 | cat >log

which yields :

  http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/bugs/ltsp-build-client-sid2.out.gz

I'm guessing that at some point, something inside
ltsp-build-client does something it shouldn't with stdout and/or
stderr... Perhaps reopening either one with O_TRUNC just before
writing "NOTE: disabling security APT source for sid.  It does not
exist."...

-- System Information:
Deleted because it relates to the wrong host.
55783e9f68aef32ca36490762e2557dc  /usr/sbin/ltsp-build-client

-- 
André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
"Like a spambot on bugs.debian.org."