--login does not work in 2.4.2

[Tobias Dussa]

Hi,

I've recently upgraded from 2.3.8 to 2.4.2 (with an update to Oneiric ;-)), and sakura stopped working when called with the "--login" parameter.

A little bit of stracing reveals something that looks like the problem: The shell is not execve()ed correctly any more. In 2.3.8, by comparison,
the shell is spawned with the correct binary and the correct argv[0] parameter for login shells (that is, a dash is prepended to the argv[0] parameter).
This looks like this in an strace:
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execve("/bin/zsh", ["-/bin/zsh"] ...
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2.4.2 now tries to spawn my zsh like this:
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execve("-/bin/zsh", ["-/bin/zsh"] ...
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which fails because "-/bin/zsh" is no valid binary, of course. Interestingly, sakura then just hangs instead of quitting, so there may be other problems.
But as far as I can see, this behavior is a bug and should be fixed.

Cheers,
Toby.

[Tobias Dussa (tobias-launchpad-dussa)]

Is there any news on this issue? There is a bugfix upstream, so surely this shouldn't be too hard to ship?!?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Thanks for the reminder. I've prepared an upload for Debian containing the fix, and will sync it to Ubuntu once it has been sponsored.

[David Gómez (dabisu)]

Yes, it's upstream, i was holding the release because of another issue, but i haven't done nothing these last days, so i guess i'll make release ASAP with the current upstream code.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sakura - 2.4.2-3

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sakura (2.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

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