Andree's Debian & General Musings

I've just uploaded mondo 2.09-2 which comes with a number of improvements and bug fixes (one reported and more unreported):

• No more garbled screens or error messages because of insufficiently escaped strings used in system() or popen(). (Well, not quite true, but the one known issue should be fixed now with new function module mr_stresc() that can be used wherever else needed.)
• mondorestore will now ask in non-nuke mode whether an existing post-nuke script is to be executed. (Doing this is generally a good idea on Debian as the post-nuke script in the package updates the initrd image to adjust for RAID and other system changes.)
  
• Fixed issue where stabgrub-me would fail if /etc/grub.conf is a symbolic link preventing the user from editing the grub config file. (This requires readlink which I've added to mindi-busybox, hence the new mindi-busybox package version.)
• I was getting segmentation faults in space_occupied_by_cd() - it's not a good idea to do fin = popen(...) followed by fgets(...,...,fin) without checking the success of the former. Fixed this by evaluating errno after the popen() call. (Strangely, with the errno checking in place, popen() doesn't seem to fail anymore, which might indicate a different underlying issue althogether - we'll see.)
  

Whilst working on the above I also experienced problems with ntfsclone and the still very present NFS issue with kernel 2.6.17.

Because of bespoke NFS issue I tested with DVDs as backup media on amd64 with kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64 (2.6.17-7).