Description of problem: We had utility that uses quotactl syscall. It's broken after upgrade from kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl to kernel-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl. Syscall is stalled during operation. strace output fragment: quotactl(0xff800003 /* Q_??? */|USRQUOTA, "/dev/sda1", 0, NULL) = -1 ESRCH (No s uch process) quotactl(0xff800002 /* Q_??? */|USRQUOTA, "/dev/sda1", 2, after this utility is stalled. How reproducible: quotaon qutaoff in loop. Actual results: Sometime after quotaon or qutaoff will stall silently. quotacheck will not run in this time, so quouta subsystem are fulyy stalled. Additionaly when i try to reboot machine reboot script is stops with message about quotactl process not found, or someting like this during turning quotas off, so without a physical access to machine it's impossible to make it alive again. Expected results: Infinit loop of enabling and disabling quota. Additional info: I dont know affected other kernel versions(patches ) or not, maybe this bug is apper in earlier kernel updates to.
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I am personaly knows about existance of Fedora Leagcy, but many customers a not satisfied with usage of Fedora Legacy instead of fedora's own repository. RHEL are not suitaable for those customers as to expencive systems for this moment. You a loosing popularity with so frequent and full end of life's of your products. But anyway i am cannot do anythig here, and i know Fedora 1 is not supported anymore. Bug is seems to be less agressive in 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl.
i'v many server with fc1 and kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl there are a solution to solve this bug ? marco