Bug 238862

Summary: cpio Illegal seek
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Brian Smith <brian>
Component: cpioAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.5CC: asersen, mnowak, ovasik
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0719 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Brian Smith 2007-05-03 14:18:26 UTC 
When using cpio-2.5-13.RHEL4 and attempting the command:

find . -print | cpio -oacB  --rsh-command=/usr/bin/rsh -O host:/backups/a.cpio

It returns:
host: Connection refused
cpio: host:/backups/a.cpio: Illegal seek

If I force install cpio-2.5-9.RHEL4.i386.rpm and use that binary, the command 
works.
Comment 1 Brian Smith 2007-05-03 14:37:36 UTC 
I guess since I have a work around this can be medium
Comment 2 Radek Brich 2007-07-25 14:26:35 UTC 
Well, I got different results:

# rpm -q cpio
cpio-2.5-13.RHEL4.i386
# find . -print | cpio -oacB  --rsh-command=/usr/bin/rsh -O host:/root/a.cpio
Segmentation fault
# find . -print | /tmp/cpio -oacB  --rsh-command=/usr/bin/rsh -O host:/root/a.cpio
20 blocks

The second binary is from 2.5-9.RHEL4. No doubt something is broken there...
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-11-29 04:20:40 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 4 Brian Smith 2007-11-29 15:15:50 UTC 
FYI, this seems fixed in RHEL5
Comment 10 Michal Nowak 2008-06-13 10:08:45 UTC 
Created attachment 309188 [details]
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Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-24 19:57:04 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0719.html