From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Zeimetz Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:51:49 +0000 Subject: Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes Message-Id: <47268025.3010005@bzed.de> List-Id: References: <20071024223332.GA24557@keid.carnet.hr> In-Reply-To: <20071024223332.GA24557@keid.carnet.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Here you go. >> >> (Mind, this is capturing the current status of the chroot, which is fairly >> unclean, because right now it happens to be building python-qt4-4.3.1.) > > What we're missing here is a probably important piece: > > If dpkg-query is running during a build, it is running in a fakeroot > environment. I've straced that, see the attachment. what I forgot to mention - this strace was taken as non-root user of course, not sure what fakeroot does if it's called as root. -- Bernd Zeimetz