[gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Mick]

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Hi All,

I just noticed a psd error at boot time:

/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution

Any idea what's brought this about?

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Samuraiii]

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On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just noticed a psd error at boot time:
>
> /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution
>
> Any idea what's brought this about?
>
Hi,

my bet is that your /bin/sh != /bin/bash and
/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon starts with #!/bin/sh.

The other way around /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon contains bashishms.

You can try (as a test) to change #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash...

S


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Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM Samuraiii <samurai.no.dojo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I just noticed a psd error at boot time:
>
> /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution
>
> Any idea what's brought this about?
>
> Hi,
>
> my bet is that your /bin/sh != /bin/bash and /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon starts with #!/bin/sh.
>
> The other way around /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon contains bashishms.
>
> You can try (as a test) to change #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash...
>
> S

The shebang in the master repository is '#!/bin/bash'.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/master/common/profile-sync-daemon.in

The error message is a shell parameter expansion syntax error, which
comprises two different expansion constructs referenced below.
${#parameter}
String Length.

${parameter##[word]}
Remove Largest Prefix Pattern.

See section 2.6.2 Parameter Expansion,
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/nframe.html.

The script in the master repository referenced above does not contain
the line in question. It has '${#DIRArr[@]/}' and '${DIRArr[@]##*/}'.

Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:18 AM Alexander Kapshuk
<alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM Samuraiii <samurai.no.dojo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just noticed a psd error at boot time:
> >
> > /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution
> >
> > Any idea what's brought this about?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > my bet is that your /bin/sh != /bin/bash and /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon starts with #!/bin/sh.
> >
> > The other way around /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon contains bashishms.
> >
> > You can try (as a test) to change #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash...
> >
> > S
>
> The shebang in the master repository is '#!/bin/bash'.
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/master/common/profile-sync-daemon.in
>
> The error message is a shell parameter expansion syntax error, which
> comprises two different expansion constructs referenced below.
> ${#parameter}
> String Length.
>
> ${parameter##[word]}
> Remove Largest Prefix Pattern.
>
> See section 2.6.2 Parameter Expansion,
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/nframe.html.
>
> The script in the master repository referenced above does not contain
> the line in question. It has '${#DIRArr[@]/}' and '${DIRArr[@]##*/}'.

This appears to have been reported as a bug in Debian [1]
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839049
And applied upstream [2].
https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/pull/185/files/654f5359abfe7aab2e1616dd74c8ba0f76ce4ab4

Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Mick]

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On Thursday, 6 September 2018 09:22:35 BST Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:18 AM Alexander Kapshuk
> 
> <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM Samuraiii <samurai.no.dojo@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I just noticed a psd error at boot time:
> > > 
> > > /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad
> > > substitution
> > > 
> > > Any idea what's brought this about?
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > my bet is that your /bin/sh != /bin/bash and
> > > /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon starts with #!/bin/sh.
> > > 
> > > The other way around /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon contains bashishms.
> > > 
> > > You can try (as a test) to change #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash...
> > > 
> > > S
> > 
> > The shebang in the master repository is '#!/bin/bash'.
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/master/comm
> > on/profile-sync-daemon.in
> > 
> > The error message is a shell parameter expansion syntax error, which
> > comprises two different expansion constructs referenced below.
> > ${#parameter}
> > String Length.
> > 
> > ${parameter##[word]}
> > Remove Largest Prefix Pattern.
> > 
> > See section 2.6.2 Parameter Expansion,
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/nframe.html.
> > 
> > The script in the master repository referenced above does not contain
> > the line in question. It has '${#DIRArr[@]/}' and '${DIRArr[@]##*/}'.
> 
> This appears to have been reported as a bug in Debian [1]
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839049
> And applied upstream [2].
> https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon/pull/185/files/654f5359abfe7
> aab2e1616dd74c8ba0f76ce4ab4

Thanks Alexander, good catch!
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] profile-sync-daemon "bad substitution" at boot

[Mick]

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Thanks Samuraiii,

On Thursday, 6 September 2018 08:48:31 BST Samuraiii wrote:
> On 5.9.2018 21:20, Mick wrote:

> > I just noticed a psd error at boot time:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad
> > substitution
> > 
> > Any idea what's brought this about?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my bet is that your /bin/sh != /bin/bash and

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

$ ls -la /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan  5  2018 /bin/sh -> bash

> /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon starts with #!/bin/sh.

No, it starts with the bash shebang:

#!/bin/bash

#
# Profile-sync-deamon by graysky <graysky AT archlinux DOT us>
# Inspired by some code originally written by Colin Verot
#


> The other way around /usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon contains bashishms.
> 
> You can try (as a test) to change #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash...
> 
> S

It's soooo full of bashisms I wouldn't know where to start.  The substitution 
line with the error is shown below, but my regex-fu is not good enough to 
troubleshoot it:

# browser is on system so check profiles
#
# check that the LAST DIRECTORY in the full path is unique
  unique_count=$(echo ${DIRArr[@]##*/} | sed 's/ /\n/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l)
     if [[ ${#DIRArr[@]##*/} -eq $unique_count ]]; then
     return # no problems so do nothing
     else
     echo -e " ${RED}Error: ${NRM}${BLD}dup profile for ${GRN}$browser${NRM}$
{BLD} detected. See psd manpage, correct, and try again."${NRM}


I also noticed the startup script has not yet been converted to openrc-run:

# /etc/init.d/psd restart                                              
 * /etc/init.d/psd uses runscript, please convert to openrc-run.                 
 * Starting Profile-Sync-Daemon ...                                              
/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon: line 325: ${#DIRArr[@]##*/}: bad substitution [ 
ok ]

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Regards,
Mick

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