Ubuntu
debianutils package

select-editor should informatively handle read-only $HOME

Bug #264454 reported by Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-09-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debianutils (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debianutils

bryce> kirkland: btw I ran into an issue with sensible-editor
<bryce> kirkland: I have a chroot set up with intrepid installed, and have emacs22 installed in that. When I do crontab -e, sensible-editor asks to choose vim.tiny or emacs22
<bryce> kirkland: I pick emacs22 which it accepts without error, but it pops up vi instead
<bryce> on exiting I see the error messages:
<bryce> /usr/bin/select-editor: 41: cannot create /home/bryce/.selected_editor: Permission denied
<bryce> /usr/bin/select-editor: 41: cannot create /home/bryce/.selected_editor: Permission denied
<bryce> I believe this is because I mount my home dir read-only inside the chroot
* bigjools-dinner is now known as bigjools
<bryce> I tried putting various things into ~/.selected_editor but didn't know what it expects to be there; couldn't get it to work.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/debianutils

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-09-03:

debianutils.264454.debdiff Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

Patch attached. Patch fixes both this bug, as well as Bug #264423.

:-Dustin

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-09-03:

This bug was fixed in the package debianutils - 2.29ubuntu2

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debianutils (2.29ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * select-editor: ensure that $HOME/.selected_editor is writable
    (LP: #264454).
  * sensible-editor: ensure that select-editor is only called if the current
    input is a tty (LP: #264423).

-- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:02:38 -0500