Description of problem: a cut command that works when output goes to the console but produces no output otherwise Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): busybox-1.2.2-8.fc7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: see attached log Actual results: cut produces an empty file Expected results: cut produces a file with "1" Additional info: This seems to be why kdump is currently broken, at least for me. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399731
Created attachment 287111 [details] demonstration / exploration of busybox's cut behaviour
This problem is fixed in busybox-1.2.2-9.fc7 which will be in test branch soon.
I think that means it will appear in http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/x86_64/ It's not there yet. The busybox site lists 1.8.2 as the latest stable version. 1.2.2 dates back to October 2006. F8 uses 1.6.1 (2007 June) as a base. It does not have this bug nor does it have https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423781 . Would it be good to rebase to 1.6.1?
busybox-1.2.2-9.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update busybox'
This version seems to fix the cut bug. kdump now works. Thanks.
clone for F8's busybox 1.6.1: bug 425873