On 2010-01-04 17:48 +0100, Guillaume Ayoub wrote: > I have the same problem. It appeared just after upgrading libc6 from 2.10.2-2 > to 2.10.2-3. Looking at the eglibc Changelog may help (but I didn't find > anything).
Please file a bug against libc6. > I tried to find the reason, and it seems to come from touch. Touch now works > for me only for files, but not for folders: > > $ ls -l > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 jan. 4 17:22 test_directory > -rw-r--r-- 1 user users 0 jan. 4 17:22 test_file > > $touch test_file > $touch test_directory > touch: setting times of `test_directory': Bad file descriptor > > tar uses touch and fails, dpkg uses tar and apt-get uses dpkg, so apt-get > fails :). Other programs using touch on folders (such as postfix) fail to > start too. > > A small quick and dirty hack is to use the --touch option for tar. You can do > this with "$export TAR_OPTIONS='--touch'". After this, tar seems to work, > postfix starts again. Unfortunately, dpkg does not use $TAR_OPTIONS (as said > in bug #530860) and I didn't find a solution to pass an option to tar in dpkg. It might help to write a small wrapper for tar, like this (assuming you have /root/bin in $PATH before /bin): #! /bin/sh # /root/bin/tar exec /bin/tar --touch "$@" > My filesystem is ext3, my partition is not full. It worked well with > libc6-2.10.2-2. I have quite an old kernel (2.6.21.1 modified by my hosting > provider). Such old kernels are probably not well tested by the eglibc developers. > Without tar/dpkg/apt-get, it seems quite difficult to downgrade libc6 to > 2.10.2-2. If someone had an idea, that would be *great* news. If the trick suggested above does not work, you could use ar and tar directly to extract /lib/libc-2.10.2.so from the libc6 2.10.2-2 .deb. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
