uuidd appears to be broken on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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util-linux (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
uuidgen -t returns a correct result when uuidd is _not_ running. See the following transcript
vdbergh@pl:~/$ sudo systemctl stop uuidd.service uuidd.socket
vdbergh@pl:~/$ uuidgen -t
ef485202-
vdbergh@pl:~/$ sudo systemctl start uuidd.service
vdbergh@pl:~/$ uuidgen -t
f8e7b3ca-
The same issue appears with every program that relies on libuuid.
Example: uuid.getnode() in python3 is supposed to return the MAC address but this only works if uuidd is not running.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: uuid-runtime 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-44-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 2 15:59:10 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-06 (542 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I forgot to mention that a self compiled uuidd does not suffer from this bug(?).