[Bug 1032831] upstream patch:

2012-08-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's the likely upstream patch: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/699/focus=705 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032831 Title: zgrep - doesn't work if is two digit

Re: [Bug 955624] Re: md5sum command calculate different code for the same file

2012-03-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Birol Bora wrote: > The problem is being caused by faulty memory. I scanned the memory with > a memory test tools. I've found a memory card is defective and replaced > with a new one. Problem solved. > > ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) >Status: New => Invalid Thanks for letting us know.

Re: [Bug 955624] [NEW] md5sum command calculate different code for the same file

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Birol Bora wrote: > Public bug reported: > > I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 > When I execute md5sum command its calculate different code for the same file > > birol@trax:~/Downloads$ uname -a > Linux trax 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC 2012 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > bir

Re: [Bug 908354] Re: tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anything (livecd cow overlayfs)

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
[ following up to this report, http://bugs.launchpad.net/+source/coreutils/+bug/908354 ] Tuomas Heino wrote: > ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ stat -f --format %t:%T /var/log > 1021994:tmpfs Thanks. Unlike most file system types, overlayFS appears to have no magic number. Now we're seeing how using files o

Re: [Bug 908354] [NEW] tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anything (livecd cow overlayfs)

2011-12-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Tuomas Heino wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Doing tail -f on /var/log/kern.log (which gets appended every 10 seconds) > does not print anyting. > May be an issue with the livecd / how overlayfs works. In any case tail > should at least complain if underlaying fs does not properly support whate

Re: [Bug 833587] Re: du assert failure: du:du.c :583 : process_file:L'assertion« level== prev_level -1 »aéchoué.

2011-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833587 > > Title: > du assert failure: du: du.c :583 : process_file: L'assertion « level > == prev_level - 1 » a échoué. ... > ProblemType: Crash > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 > Package: coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6 ... > AssertionMessage: du: du.c :583 : pr

Re: [Bug 868747] Re: fmt -f should be supported

2011-10-05 Thread Jim Meyering
jimav wrote: > Strictly speaking this is an enhancement request. > > fmt imposes an artificial limit on the maximum output line length > controlled by the -f option, which prevents using this tool to "join" You meant -w, not -f, throughout. Thanks for the suggestion. Note that the code has

Re: [Bug 784758] Re: Wrong documentation for 'od'

2011-05-21 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: > Upstream has been faster on the uptake than I was. I had just tested > coreutils GIT, and found the same issue, and was preparing an email to > bugs-coreutils (and finding who are the translators for French). I > should have done that already... instead I initially thought it

Re: [Bug 591969] Re: dd: cryptic error message when bs=

2010-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Dave Gilbert wrote: > Just reading the patch, I'm not sure that's solving both cases - i.e. > 1) That there is a problem if your value is too large for RAM (i.e. a > memory exhausted) > 2) There is something saying 'invalid number' on large values, and that > seems to depend on the wo

[Bug 591969] Re: dd: cryptic error message when bs=

2010-06-14 Thread Jim Meyering
nterproductive or error-inducing." While I deliberately do not mention the actual limits above, note that they're about half of the numbers you listed: ~1GiB and ~8EiB I went ahead and wrote the patch: >From d8e0d2d0efba4fa9c5bc1c29bf7e0028dd292237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From

[Bug 412069] Re: stat reports wrong fundamental block size

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
As far as I can see, there is no problem with code being out of sync. If you can point to specifics, please let me know, since I'm about to release coreutils-7.5 upstream. However, note that with glibc and a linux kernel, the stat program always uses statfs, and not statvfs. This is a deliberate

[Bug 370065] Re: sort seg faults

2009-04-30 Thread Jim Meyering
I fixed that upstream with this change: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=25eb4c69097ca4f5665b050cfa4247a19ffd8c55 -- sort seg faults https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370065 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 154602] Re: incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon "mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo"

2009-03-30 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: > Interesting. Jim Meyring's answer did not make it here (although, > AFAICS, it was correctly addressed). So, here it is: Thanks for forwarding that. It didn't go through because I sent it with a From address not matching the subscribed one. -- incorrect cp(1) behaviour up

[Bug 200234] Re: nice crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort()

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
nice doesn't call qsort directly, but rather only via libc's setlocale function. As such, I suggest you reassign this report to glibc. -- nice crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200234 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 119819] Re: scanimage -L crashes with HP ScanJet 4100c

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi, I had the same problem and have just worked around it. Here's the report w/patch I've just sent upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/12601 -- scanimage -L crashes with HP ScanJet 4100c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119819 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 59083] fchownat ignores AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag

2006-09-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Public bug reported: already reported here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- users/2006-September/093218.html ** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- fchownat ignores AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag https://launchpad.net/bugs/59083 -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 48917] Re: shred manpage is mangled.

2006-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks for the report. I've just fixed this upstream: 2006-08-13 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/shred.c (usage): Don't indent the second line of an item. Otherwise, help2man would misformat the output. Reported by Adam Buchbinder in <https:/