Package: perforate
Version: 1.1-2
Severity: important
This could be rated a 'critical' bug -- I'm not sure.
% man zum | cat -n | grep 18
18 find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zum
That line run in the '/' (root) directory made my Debian partition
unbootable. Maybe some system files don't work if they're been perforated,
or it confuses 'lilo'.
After some trial and error with rescue disks, (ran 'lilo', 'e3fsck', copied
some system directories to '/tmp' and then back), I got the system so it
could boot once again. Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly which of those
rescue procedures fixed it.
Anyway, 'man zum' needs some sort of warning. Preferably one that explains
exactly what can go wrong and how to prevent or fix it.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages perforate depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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