On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > An apt-get upgrade failed midflow today with strange utime errors such as: > > > > tar: ./postinst: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > tar: ./shlibs: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > tar: ./control: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > tar: ./postrm: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > tar: ./md5sums: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > tar: .: Cannot utime: Unknown error 4294967207 > > Can you reproduce this on other machines? Is the error number > always the same?
Ugh, I did not notice that it was on mips. Nigel, you must provide a list of what was upgraded when the problem started appearing. It might be a problem between libc and the kernel. I remember having seen something like that in the past. CCing Aurélion Jarno who might remember better than me. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
