Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn and superuser on Fedora 11

[Zack Weinberg]

This is a known bug in the Botan cryptography library that we use.  I
don't know exactly which version fixed the bug, but it *has* been
fixed; try to get a newer version of libbotan.

zw

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Nicolas Ruiz<address@hidden> wrote:
> Apologies in advance if this had already been covered, but I couldn't
> find anything related to this.
>
> I use mtn to keep track of changes in the /etc directory (Linux). Since
> there are plenty of files that are not world-readable I have to run mtn
> as root (or under sudo). This works well under Debian unstable, but I'm
> having problems getting it to work in Fedora 11.
>
> For the record, on both distributions I'm using monotone 0.44 (base
> revision: 7a4832143b3146ca89f5cb91e0e571d05e29d4b9)
>
> On Fedora mtn gets stuck during commit or generating the keys. Under
> strace I get (again, executing commit or genkey) to:
>
> close(11)                               = 0
> lstat64("/proc/kmsg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0400, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/proc/kmsg", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY)   = 11
> read(11,
>
> and stays there. I had left mtn hang there for at least 24 hours while
> doing other work and it doesn't complete.
>
> I tried disabling SELinux, just in case, and it has no effect.
>
> I also tried --ssh-sign yes|no|only, no effect.
>
> Running with --debug does not give any useful info.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
> nicolas
>
>
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