Bug 179913 - Bad Address message recieved when attempting to touch a file
Summary: Bad Address message recieved when attempting to touch a file
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-03 20:20 UTC by Adam Jocksch
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-04 15:11:19 UTC
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Description Adam Jocksch 2006-02-03 20:20:54 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.5.0.1-2 Firefox/1.5.0.1

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).


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