Bug 163273 - /var/log/lastlog 1.1 Terabytes setup 2.5.27-1
Summary: /var/log/lastlog 1.1 Terabytes setup 2.5.27-1
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 146214
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: setup
Version: 3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-14 18:15 UTC by John Willis
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-14 18:40:26 UTC
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Description John Willis 2005-07-14 18:15:14 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Description of problem:
after install the file /var/log/lastlog is 1.1 Terabytes of nothing
exactly 1254130450140 bytes

in the head of the file are the words:

i_Btty1



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setup-2.5.27-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do a kickstart install
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3.
  

Actual Results:   normal setup

Expected Results:   normal setup

Additional info:

it effects the reported diskspace in use inaccurately and prevents installing additional files, could script it away post install, however it appears to be one whopper of a bug, so reporting it.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-14 18:40:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146214 ***
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