[bzr] error when encountering large file

[C de-Avillez]

ran an dist-upgrade, got the following at the end:

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
bzr: warning: skipping /etc/X11/core (larger than add.maximum_file_size of 20000000 bytes)
Committing to: /etc/
bzr: ERROR: No changes to commit. Please 'bzr add' the files you want to commit, or use --unchanged to force an empty commit.
E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

a 'sudo bzr status' on /etc shows:

[cerdea-aws]cerdea@xango3:/etc/etckeeper/post-install.d$ sudo bzr status
[sudo] password for cerdea:
unknown:
  X11/core

From previous experience, if I remove /etc/X11/core, there is no error. So it seems the coredump written by X mucks with etckeeper processing. Still, etckeeper should survive it (mostly because the coredump is being written to /etc/X11 by X itself).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: etckeeper 0.61ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.24-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: c8a7d84e13c3b258e707f056604eb0e0
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Fri Sep 28 14:32:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120701)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: etckeeper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[James Page (james-page)]

This might actually be a behavioural change in bzr which is impacting into etckeeper.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Confirmed. Reproducable by creating a large file in /etc and then running a suitable operation (I used "apt-get install hello").

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Affects:

Precise:
bzr 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
etckeeper 0.61ubuntu2

Quantal:
bzr 2.6.0~beta2-0ubuntu1
etckeeper 0.61ubuntu2

[Kevin Cole (kjcole)]

As a temporary work around just manually add

X11/core

to the end of /etc/.bzrignore

Yes?

(On my system, nothing else in /etc comes anywhere near the size of /etc/X11/core. So, that's likely to be the only file tripping this error for a while.)

[Semo (semox78)]

Please FIX it.

I have the same error here on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

bzr: warning: Überspringe /etc/X11/core (Größer als add.maximum_file_size von 20000000 Bytes)

Translation: Ignoring [file] (larger than [Attribute name] of 20MiB )

It happens after updating the OS. This bug is now 2 years old! Isn't there anybody able to repair it?
Because I'm not. If possible I'd try it, but I even dunno how to test for several systems and so on.

Thanks and regards,
Semo

[Chuck Torrens (hockeybum27)]

I have the same issue after upgrading from 12.04 to 14.041 x64 bit.

Is it concerning that /etc/X11/core is so large?
If so, is it indicative of a problem with X11?
Is it a bug in bzr?

I am going to try the workaround posted by kjcole (adding to .bzrignore).

[Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea)]

Any fixes for this? For some strange reason I do still see these warnings even if I manually added the paths to /etc/.bzrignore