> > They are using NFS (NAS filer). > > Possibly you're running into ACL problems. Are there any ACLs in use > anywhere on that file system? If so, that can prevent the "chmod" > system call from succeeding, and this will cause the "chmod" command > to fail as well. If the problem is reproducible, then "strace" will > tell you what went wrong.
Hi Paul, thanks for your advice. The NAS device does indeed use ACL. But I would expect them to cause reproducible failures which is not the case here. As I mentioned in my reply to Bob the error is not predicably reproducible, and with the excessive amount of data a reasonable trace is not possible at my current point of knowledge. > It appears from the diagnostics that you are running a modified > version of coreutils, so you may need to install a vanilla version > to track down the problem. I suggest using the latest CVS version, > or if that's too much hassle the latest alpha version. See: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz I will try to create and install a new chmod version and proceed there. With best regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
