[mintbackup] can not handle named pipes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) The version and edition of Linux Mint you are using (if you are not sure, open a terminal and run "mintwelcome").
Linux Mint 11 GNOME 64 bits.
2) What you did for the problem to happen, and how to reproduce it.
The problem happens when you have a named pipe somewhere in your folders to backup. To reproduce, make a named pipe somewhere in the folders to backup with "mkfifo named_pipe", then proceed to backup. (I created a separate folder with a named pipe and some normal files in it, and only backed this up. For easily reproducing the issue.)
3) What happened.
Once the named_pipe file is to be processed by mintbackup, it hangs indefinitely at that file with "Calculating checksum" in the progress bar.
4) What you expected to happen instead.
That any named pipes would be ignored or a warning issues for them, but that mintbackup would finish doing a backup.
5) If the problem happened once, sometimes, or always.
It happens always if you have a named pipe in your folders to backup.
For one real example, the Firefox add-on LastPass creates a named pipe in the users home folder.
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
I am on Linux Mint 11 GNOME 32 bit and Mintbackup also hangs for me on LastPass as described in the original bug report.