Bob, > Throughout the coreutils there has been a goal to detect and report > errors because silent data corruption due to an unreported error is > very bad. Unfortunately not all projects have this as their goal. > This is not saying anything about konqueror or krusader because I > don't know but looking at it from here the fact that they did not > report an error does not mean that an error did not occur. It may > have simply gone unreported. Unfortunately this is simply a "no data" > point.
I agree. Error reporting is important. Unhandled errors can easily cause big problems. > The trace shows routines called attr_copy_file() and > attr_copy_check_permissions() and it appears to be the latter one that > is faiing. I also see the string "setting attributes for %s" and > similar. However none of those appear in coreutils. They appear in > libattr. This appears to be a patched version of coreutils for > SELinux, I guess? Well, I'm using Mandriva Linix Spring 2007. I search for the error strings, but coild not find them. It's strange that "setting attributes for %s" is not translated as all other strings in coreutils are. So it must come from somwere else. I don't know if Mandriva has patched things from SELinux, but I have not found any evidence for that. > You might try turning off the SELinux policy layer and seeing if the > problem goes away at that time. Which I can't do as I'm not running it. > I would also try compiling a pristine copy of coreutils. It is > possible that a bug was introduced by the 3rd party patches. Yes, I have already downloaded 6.9 compiled and installed it in /usr/local/. I had to rearrange PATH a little. And the error does NOT show up. However, the "-f" or "--force" flag does not seem to work. Even with it, I get a question about overwriting. /Peter -- Peter Landgren Talken Hagen 671 94 Brunskog 0570-530 21 070 -635 4719 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: pgl4820 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
