Installing Ubuntu-Trusty Clients - bash shellshock issue?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Fri Jun 19 15:54:09 CEST 2015


>>>>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:09:38 +0200, René Bleisch <accounts at climate.unibe.ch> said:

    > today I installed an Ubuntu Trusty Client from my Debian/wheezy nfsroot (which I use for all Debian and Ubuntu clients).
    > during the installation, suddenly some "/bin/bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC"  errors where thrown.
    > The installation seems to succed - the configurations are successfull, I can boot into the system and everything works as expected.

    > => hence its not a serious issue but only annoying because it spoofs the fai.log
    > => it only occurs during Ubuntu trusty installations (no such errors for wheezy/jessie clients)
    > => it never happened before (my last Ubuntu install was 25.April)
    > => googleing suggests, that it is related to bash being patched for the "Shellshock" vulnerability (was it included in a recent Ubuntu-bash-package update?)

    > Did anyone have similar issues with Ubuntu clients?
We had the same problem with Debian some time ago. You can just ignore
this ugly messages. See also

https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2014-October/010726.html

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regards Thomas


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