Debian Bug report logs - #688789
/sbin/lvcreate: lvcreate/lvremove --quiet are not quiet

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Package: lvm2; Maintainer for lvm2 is Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>; Source for lvm2 is src:lvm2 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:39:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions lvm2/2.02.95-4, lvm2/2.02.111-2

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>:
Bug#688789; Package lvm2. (Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:39:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Roger Lynn <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>. (Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:39:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: /sbin/lvcreate: lvcreate/lvremove --quiet are not quiet
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:37:48 +0100
Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.95-4
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/lvcreate

Every invocation of lvcreate --quiet or lvremove --quiet from a /bin/sh 
script called from bash outputs:

File descriptor 3 (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions) leaked on lvcreate invocation. Parent PID 32675: /bin/sh
  Logical volume "backup" created

or:

File descriptor 3 (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions) leaked on lvremove invocation. Parent PID 32675: /bin/sh
  Logical volume "backup" successfully removed

Having wasted quite a bit of time investigating this error message at least 
I know that is apparently meaningless and can be safely ignored. Perhaps this 
will be useful to other people encountering this error.

Thanks,

Roger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  dmsetup                   2:1.02.74-4
ii  initscripts               2.88dsf-32
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libdevmapper-event1.02.1  2:1.02.74-4
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.74-4
ii  libreadline5              5.2-11
ii  libudev0                  175-7
ii  lsb-base                  4.1+Debian7

lvm2 recommends no packages.

lvm2 suggests no packages.

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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>:
Bug#688789; Package lvm2. (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:00:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Dave Page <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>. (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:00:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: /sbin/lvcreate: lvcreate/lvremove --quiet are not quiet
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:40:54 +0000
Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.111-2
Followup-For: Bug #688789

I recently had the same problem with lvcreate / lvremove. I assumed a bug in
the source and went looking to fix it.

I learned from a source comment (lib/commands/toolcontext.c:183) that there is
the -qq option for extra quietness disables the spurious output from lvcreate
and lvremove. The manpage for LVM suggests that repeating -q will "also
suppress any prompts with answer 'no'", which doesn't seem to match this case.

I still consider it a bug that this output is not removed by --quiet, but
that's for the Debian maintainers to decide; in the meantime, I hope that
documenting this workaround will help those who find the original bug report
after discovering this behaviour.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  dmeventd                  2:1.02.90-2
ii  dmsetup                   2:1.02.90-2
ii  init-system-helpers       1.22
ii  initscripts               2.88dsf-58
ii  libc6                     2.19-13
ii  libdevmapper-event1.02.1  2:1.02.90-2
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.90-2
ii  libreadline5              5.2+dfsg-2
ii  libudev1                  215-7
ii  lsb-base                  4.1+Debian13+nmu1

lvm2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lvm2 suggests:
pn  thin-provisioning-tools  <none>

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