Launchpad itself

Bad tidyup (55877) caused dists backup to turn into a hardlink farm; hilarity ensued

Bug #56470 reported by Malcolm Cleaton
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Critical
Malcolm Cleaton

Bug Description

Due to bug 55877, where we weren't tidying up dists.new until after running the final actions in cron.daily, it was still in the ubuntu-archive/ubuntu tree when dsync ran, which means it got turned into a hardlink farm of the live dists tree.

Repeated rsyncs, of course, were therefore very *very* fast, but did nothing of any use, and while apt-ftparchive was running, we had an inconsistent dists tree, causing build failures.

Tags: lp-soyuz
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Malcolm Cleaton (malcolmcleaton) wrote :

This was fixed, hopefully, by deleting the ubuntu-distscopy/dists tree. The next run should create a good backup, and it shouldn't have a chance to become a hardlink farm.

Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → malcolmcleaton
importance: Untriaged → Critical
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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