Comment 4 for bug 28012

Message-ID: <20060108125933.GA25104@1>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:59:33 +0100
From: Michael Meskes <email address hidden>
To: Bryan Donlan <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#346048: quota fails in postinst

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:42:55PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> chroot was created using cdebootstrap directly to sid. After a bit of

Okay, I did the same now.

> investigation, this seems to be reproducable by emptying or deleting
> /etc/fstab, purging quota, and reinstalling. I'm not sure how to

That's strange. If /etc/fstab does not exist I get:
...
Setting up quota (3.13-4) ...
awk: cannot open /etc/fstab (No such file or directory)
dpkg: error processing quota (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 quota

If I just touch /etc/fstab to create an empty file I get:
...
Unpacking quota (from .../archives/quota_3.13-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up quota (3.13-4) ...

Or in other words, everything is fine.

> The chroot's root filesystem is xfs, on a LVM volume, and the kernel
> is linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7 2.6.12-10, if that matters.

Maybe. To be honest it looks like there is something else going on, not
just a bug in quota. Is there a way you could tar together your chroot
and put it on a server I I could download it to see if it works here?

Michael
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