On 8/20/16, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 1:46 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> > On 19-08-2016, at 4:32 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:31 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>      > On 19-08-2016, at 12:41 PM, Fabio Niephaus
>> >> <lists at fniephaus.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>      >
>> >>      > Thanks for the bug reports. I've fixed the regex bug and found
>> >> a
>> way to ensure "find" ignores dot files.
>> >>
>> >>      Excellent.
>> >>
>> >>      > But why do you think ensure_conf_file needs to depend upon the
>> kernel level?
>> >>
>> >>      Because the issue was fixed in the kernel some time ago.
>> Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you exactly when, but the Pi stopped
>> needing
>> the file addition around 18 months ago. That’s around the time
>> >>      the kernel was bumped up to v 4 I think. Whether it is any sort
>> >> of
>> problem to have such a file when it isn’t required… I don’t know. It’s
>> certainly less alarming for any user if the script doesn’t
>> >>      demand their superuser password!
>> >> Can someone shed some light on this or do some more digging? When
>> exactly do we need a squeak.conf? Any other ideas how to deal with this?
>> >
>> > You always need it when you use an ht VM. Without the file the VM will
>> not start (unless you run it as root, but that's something you wouldn't
>> do,
>> would you?).
>> > All VMs built by the CI are ht VMs, so the file is a must.
>>
>>
>> This is not strictly true; recent kernels simply don’t cause the problem.
>> My Pi just doesn’t need the file and hasn’t for 18+ months. I’ve checked
>> for it pre-existing and it doesn’t. I’ve been delivering the PI system
>> with
>> an ht based vm for a long time now and millions of people use it daily.
>>
>
> May I suggest we simply skip the ensure_conf_file step, if the launch
> script detects to run on a Pi for this release?
+1

Shall we print instructions
> for the common-session setup if necessary instead? We can adjust this
> behavior in the future, of course. But I'm not sure we can work out a
> proper solution in the next couple of days.
>
> Fabio
>
>
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>> > The file has no effect on kernels before 2.6.X (basically 10+ years
>> old), so checking the version is unnecessary (the VM would probably not
>> start anyway due to C library differences).
>> >
>> > Levente
>> >
>> >> Fabio
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>      tim
>> >>      --
>> >>      tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> >>      Oxymorons: Good grief
>> >
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
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