Re: /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

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My assumption was that this was less an issue in packaging and more likely
somehow my fault, so posting here made more sense than filing.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35684


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [2013-06-06 22:20:46 -0400] Scott Lawrence:
> > In short, the latest upgrade seems to have borked fetchmail:
> >
> >   fetchmail: Error writing to MDA: Broken pipe
> >
> > Deleting the /bin symlink and creating a /bin directory containing
> > only a symlink /bin/sh pointing to /usr/bin/bash, makes fetchmail
> > work again.
> >
> > Running `strace -vf fetchmail` reveals that the execve("/bin/sh"...)
> > call returns EPERM.
>
> Please create a report on our bug tracker so this issue gets
> assigned to the relevant packager and eventually fixed...
>
> > Has anybody encountered this?
>
> There is really no point looking for "bug buddies": this has never
> (and will never) fix problems. Reporting them to our tracker does.
>
> --
> Gaetan
>



-- 
Scott Lawrence


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