Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Severity: normal
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This is a pure 'etch' system.
This seemed a somewhat intermittent problem, but I'm sure it's real.
Below is a transcript that shows it occurring.
Observations:
* The problem seems to be isolated to the user 'root'.
I tested as 'root' on a pure 'sarge' system and it doesn't occur.
As a normal user, I get the output I expect.
In that case
env | grep LANG
gives
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_US:en_GB:en
LANG=en_AU
see below for these settings as 'root'.
* Simple checks don't show a runtime library loading problem
ETCH-# which df
/bin/df
ETCH-# ldd `which df`
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40026000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
* I tried to reproduce this with strace, but the problem does not
occur when I run in that mode. I can also avoid the problem by
giving the full path to the program, see transcript.
Strace output (gzipped) attached, fwiw.
One of the mounts (/usr/local) is from /etc/fstab, the others
are automounts using autofs.
* Possibly related to bugs 140479, 324934
Transcript:
ETCH-# strace -o strace.df.fullpath -fa /bin/df -text3
strace: invalid system call `xt3'
ETCH-# strace -o strace.df.fullpath -af /bin/df -text3
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 233335 60371 160516 28% /
/dev/hda8 2885780 405884 2333308 15% /data/ETCH_1
/dev/hda7 459143 8243 426403 2% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2885780 2046728 692464 75% /usr
/dev/hda6 918322 124184 745142 15% /var
ETCH-# strace -o strace.df.nopath -af df -text3
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 233335 60371 160516 28% /
/dev/hda8 2885780 405888 2333304 15% /data/ETCH_1
/dev/hda7 459143 8243 426403 2% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2885780 2046728 692464 75% /usr
/dev/hda6 918322 124184 745142 15% /var
ETCH-# df -text3
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 233335 60371 160516 28% /
/dev/hda8 2885780 405888 2333304 15% /data/ETCH_1
/dev/hda7 459143 8243 426403 2% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2885780 2046728 692464 75% /usr
/dev/hda6 918322 124184 745142 15% /var
tmpfs 323040 0 323040 0% /dev/shm
lynx:/export/DEBIANsarge
4131392 700032 3390048 18% /usr/local
lynx:/export/user3/user56
78643200 23602208 51604544 32% /u/user56
lynx:/export/applic 8246400 6426816 1737120 79% /nfs/applic
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 233335 60379 160508 28% /
/dev/hda8 2885780 405892 2333300 15% /data/ETCH_1
/dev/hda7 459143 8264 426382 2% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2885780 2046728 692464 75% /usr
/dev/hda6 918322 124207 745119 15% /var
tmpfs 323040 0 323040 0% /dev/shm
lynx:/export/DEBIANsarge
4131392 700032 3390048 18% /usr/local
lynx:/export/user3/user56
78643200 23602208 51604544 32% /u/user56
ETCH-# env
host=etch
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
USER=root
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
PWD=/root
EDITOR=vi
LANG=en_AU
PS1=ETCH-#
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_US:en_GB:en LOGNAME=root PRINTER=EPP001 _=/usr/bin/env -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.29-1.0.1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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