Bug 179913

Summary:	Bad Address message recieved when attempting to touch a file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Jocksch <ajocksch>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	5	CC:	kajtzu, mefoster
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Description Adam Jocksch 2006-02-03 20:20:54 UTC

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Description of problem:
Running a command such as 'touch testfile' results in the following: 
touch: setting times of `testfile': Bad address

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.93-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Pick a file
2.Try to touch it
3.
  

Actual Results:  The above error message was displayed

Expected Results:  touch should have behaved normally

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mary Ellen Foster 2006-02-04 08:02:49 UTC

Also happens with, e.g., "cp -p" and anything else that tries to set atime or
mtime on a file. I've only seen it since my rawhide update of yesterday. Note
that this problem was probably triggered by an update to something *other* than
coreutils, as that package is a month old; for example, a new version of glibc
came out yesterday, or it could be the kernel or something else entirely.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2006-02-04 15:11:19 UTC

New glibc should fix this (2.3.90-35).