[OpenIndiana-discuss] login issue since upgrade to illumos-5c4a5fe167

[Marcel Telka]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:46:39PM +0200, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 09:33:22PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:22 PM Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 12:47:00PM +0100, russell wrote:
> > > > Is anyone else experiencing a similar problem?
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, reported on IRC.
> > 
> > One problem appears to be that the two files
> > 
> > /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> > /usr/lib/amd64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> > 
> > are empty.
> > 
> > There are a number of recent commits in this area, but it looks like
> > something isn't triggering the recreation of those cache files correctly.
> 
> Yes, we had that problem for several days between Oct 4th and Oct 7th,
> but this issue should be already solved.  Hence my request (below) for
> the pkg list -u output.  Especially because the illumos-5c4a5fe167 was
> merged to illumos-gate on Oct 15th so my expectation is that such a
> system is already fixed.  If this problem happens with the up-to-date
> system then I'm really interested in details and more info.

While thinking more about this I think I found a scenario when this
could happen.  And, unfortunately, such a scenario is pretty common.

I'm going to do some testing and if my suspection proves valid I'll
create a fix.


Sorry for inconvenience.

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