[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail
Gaetan Bisson
bisson at archlinux.org
Thu Jun 6 22:36:45 EDT 2013
[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
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