Landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are available

I built new packages based on this branch and installed them on my test machine where landscape-client was failing to start. With the new packages, it starts up just fine.

qa + 1

This is ready to review in the attached branch. It's a workaround, but if we want it to be fixed without backporting twisted, it's the only thing we can do. I've made the packaging changes, it seems to be created just fine.

Thanks Thomas, I'm +1 for this.

[1]

#if defined(__unix__) || defined(unix) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__MACH__) /* Mac OS X */

The defined(__unix__) clause is duplicated. I'd suggest to drop the #if entirely, as we're not supporting architectures other than unix.

[2]

+def initgroups(uid, gid):

Would you mind adding a docstring to this function? Or even copy the Twisted one.

[3]

The package correctly contains the extensions, but if I install it I get:

$ python -c "import landscape.lib.initgroups"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named initgroups

I'm not sure why this is happening.

Free: thanks, fixed!

Nice work, +1!

Merged in r151!

Confirmed in staging code.

Accepted landscape-client into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted landscape-client into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted landscape-client into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.8.10.0

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landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.8.10.0) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.0

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.0) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.10.0

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.10.0) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100