Problem with autojump database, trying to recover from backup. about autojump HOT 17 CLOSED

Hi jostein,

Do you have the latest version? I used to have a similar problem, but I thought I have fixed it in a recent commit.

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I tried the latest git version today, but the same error occurs. If I try to reset the the permissions manually to "jostein, users" it is immediately reset to "root, root".

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Seems like I closed this, but this issue is still open.

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Hi!

I'm sorry this is still an issue for you. I'll try to investigate, but it will be a bit difficult since I haven't had the problem myself for a while.

In the meantime, could you send me all the information that seems relevant to you? Examples: content of the $PROMPT_COMMAND variable, permissions and ownership on the folder and all the files in ~/.local/share/autojump, content of autojump_errors, shell you're using, ...

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Here it is:

A. Output of $PROMPT_COMMAND

: ; { (autojump -a "$(pwd -P)"&)>/dev/null 2>>${AUTOJUMP_DATA_DIR}/.autojump_errors;} 2>/dev/null

B. Permisssions and ownership folder

drwxr-xr-x 2 jostein users 4096 2010-10-27 06:06 autojump

C. Files in autojump folder

~/.local/share/autojump> ls -l
total 8
-rw------- 1 root root 1445 2010-10-27 06:06 autojump_py

-rw------- 1 jostein users 1190 2010-10-27 05:05 autojump_py.bak

D. Content of autojump errors

This is always the same as I posted in my first post. Autojump worked fine for a while, and then I started getting this error.

E. echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

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Some more questions: do you often work as root? What do you use? su? sudo? Do you remember what you were doing (especially as root) when the problem appeared?

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I work as root only when needed to do system configs. I have now downloaded the latest git version, removed the ~/.local/share/autojump directory and reinstalled autojump. The permissions for the directory seems right now. I will check what happens again after reboot.

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Thanks a lot for your help!

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It seems like the file ~/.local/share/autojump_py gets its permissions changed to "root, root" as soon as I log in as root with su. After that the error start occuring. I have also tried "su -m" and "su -", but that seemed not to make any difference.

For some reason root seems to affect the autojump_py file and changes its permissions just by logging in to the root user.

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Actually "su -" seems to work differently, and does not affect the permissions on the discussed file.

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Great news: thanks to your explanations, I've finally been able to reproduce the problem. I'll try to work on a fix this week end.

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Thanks! I use an alias from su to "su -" for my bash shell now so it works fine.

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I've just pushed a fix for this problem, can you tell me if you still have the problem with "su"?

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Autojump works correctly with "su" now if I don't cd outside the home directory when root. If I f.ex. cd to the root directory the same error occurs after "su username".

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Huh, weird, I don't have the same problem.

Did you unset the PROMPT_COMMAND (or reboot) since upgrading?

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"unset PROMPT_COMMAND" in .bashrc seemed to solve the problem. Everything works fine now. Thanks!

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Great to know it works for you!

Just note that you shouldn't need to unset the prompt command in your bashrc, it should only be needed once when upgrading.

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