Hide Forgot
Description of problem: While packing and unpacking some CPIO archives I saw the following error cpio: dev/uba: Invalid argument Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cpio-2.9-7.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: find /dev/ | cpio -o | cpio -vt | grep 42949 Actual results: Lots of device nodes get reported like... crw------- 1 jburgess tty 4294967176, 4294967046 Jun 4 21:57 /dev/pts/6 Expected results: $ ls -l /dev/pts/6 crw------- 1 jburgess tty 136, 6 2008-06-04 21:57 /dev/pts/6 Additional info: Seems to happen for any device node with major number > 128 Machine above runs kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 The same is seen on machines running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 5.1 as well.
This problem does not effect the "-c" format. It isn't clear whether the default format should support these higher major numbers. A warning would be nice.
cpio-2.9-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
cpio-2.9-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.