Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/08/17 00:11, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:14:01AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 29/08/17 03:23, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:49:17AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this week,
>>>> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
>>>> would be most welcome.
>>>> [...]
>>>>   tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>>>>   cd coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3/
>>>>   ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
>>>
>>> I have tested the snapshot on a Ubuntu LTS 14.04 x86_64 notebook following 
>>> the
>>> above procedure. One FAIL was reported:
>>> [...]
>>
>> There was a patch to df in this release, though I don't think it's related:
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=a19ff5d8
>> It's a one line patch worth testing reverted, but probably not the cause.
> 
> The test tests/df/df-symlink still fails the same way with the above
> patch reverted.
> 
>> I suspect it's the test not handling overmounts like this correctly.
> 
> That was my initial thought as well. Please note that this overmount is part
> of the "encrypted home dir" feature of Ubuntu, thus probably quite common.
> 
>> Particularly for you the difference is:
>>
>>  $ df --out=source,target /home/auerswald/.Private
>>  Filesystem     Mounted on
>>  /dev/sda5      /
>>
>>  df --out=source,target '.'
>>  Filesystem               Mounted on
>>  /home/auerswald/.Private /home/auerswald
> 
> Ubuntu installed into one partition with encrypted home directory.

Thanks for confirming that.
I'll add that as a new issue to be handled in df