Bug 16015
| Summary: | Obscure error message in pkg_delete | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | spidey <spidey> | ||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | 3.4-STABLE | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->sheldonh I'll take this one. State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed in rev 1.21 of perform.c and merged to RELENG_3. I used an error message more consistent with the existing messages in that file. Thanks for the report! On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:41:15 PST, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: Obscure error message in pkg_delete > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: sheldonh > State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 11 04:39:57 PST 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > Fixed in rev 1.21 of perform.c and merged to RELENG_3. FYI, I botched rev 1.21. The problem is resolved properly in rev 1.22. Ciao, Sheldon. |
pkg_delete gives a very strange error message that is too hard to understand. It should be changed to something more descriptive. Fix: Suggested patch: How-To-Repeat: The guilty code is the following in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete/perform.c if (chdir(home) == FAIL) { cleanup(0); errx(2, "Toto! This doesn't look like Kansas anymore!"); } From what I understand, it tries to chdir to the 'home' and exits if it can't. In fact, the 'home' is the directory where the procedure started. ("if (!getcwd(home, FILENAME_MAX))", line 80). The problem is that the message "Toto! This doesn't look like Kansas anymore!" is absolutely weird and doesn't tell what the problem is _at all_. To repeat, you could cd to a directory, pkg_delete a big package, and, while pkg_delete is running, remove the directory where pkg_delete started.