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

[Nicolas Ruiz]

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Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 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.

fedora uses libbotan 1.8.2 while debian unstable is using 1.8.5. I will
try what you suggest. Thanks.

> 
> 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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