Backuppc autopkgtest fails doing ping6 due to 'Operation not permitted'
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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backuppc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Sergio Durigan Junior | ||
Focal |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Hirsute |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
+ echo Performing a full backup
+ sudo -u backuppc -H /usr/share/
Performing a full backup
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping6 -c 1 localhost
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output /bin/ping6: socket: Operation not permitted
CheckHostAlive: first ping failed (512, )
no ping response
+ result=1
ERROR: Full backup failed, exit status was 1
+ check_status 1 Full backup
+ local status_code=1
+ local msg=Full backup
+ [ 1 -ne 0 ]
+ echo ERROR: Full backup failed, exit status was 1
+ exit 1
We've not been able to reproduce this synthetically on armhf; ping6 seems to work fine. newpid is seeing a similar 'Operation not permitted' error on armhf too, although it's with the ping command rather than ping6 (see https:/
The context of the test is using ping as a diagnostic to verify another system is present. Thus, the problem is not highlighting a bug in the backuppc code itself, but in the testing environment or test implementation.
Related branches
- Bryce Harrington (community): Approve
- Canonical Server: Pending requested
- Diff: 0 lines
- Steve Langasek: Approve
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Diff: 12 lines (+4/-0)1 file modifiedubuntu-sru (+4/-0)
- Steve Langasek: Approve
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Diff: 12 lines (+4/-0)1 file modifiedubuntu-sru (+4/-0)
tags: | added: patch |
Only thing I found searching debian/upstream was this bug:
https:/ /github. com/backuppc/ backuppc/ issues/ 177
which suggests reinstalling iputils-ping resolves it.