Opened 19 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#3075 closed defect
ghostview-1.5.mpkg in Tiger-Packages overwrites /etc, kills system login — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | rajeev@… | Owned by: | darwinports-bugs@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | ghostview |
Description
Dear Darwinports, I tried installing the ghostview-1.5.mpkg (the binary from the Tiger-Packages dir in the packages.opendarwin.org WebDAV. It seemed to go fine, apart from the very old version of ghostview that it installed! But then no new terminal windows would open, and sudo would give "unable to initialize PAM: No such file or directory" It turns out that the package had overwritten /etc/, so that instead of being linked to /private/etc/ where master.passwd resides, instead there was a dir /etc/X11/app-defaults/ghostview (if I remember it correctly, it's deleted now).
A reboot failed --- dropping me into a bare shell, and a second reboot hung completely. Luckily I still had a 10.3.9 partition to boot from, from where I was able to figure out what the problem was and fix the /etc link.
This ghostview package (or maybe the ghostscript package that it also installs?) is extremely dangerous! For a while I thought that I would have to completely reinstall Tiger.
I thought that darwinports installs were all meant to go into /opt/local/, leaving system files untouched? Overwriting the main system password file is definitely bad behaviour!
Raj