Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > update-passwd (a Debian package) makes a call to lckpwdf. That fails > with an "Invalid argument" message. It looks like lckpwdf internally uses > fcntl() locking, so I tried that and it too fails with an "Invalid > argument" message. This happens both on nfs and local ext2 fs. > Similar tests with flock() seems to work ok.
Lots of things report this actually - if you look in your log files you'll see lots of "utmp file is locked/read" - also in bootup messages there will be a "can't lock <whatever>". I have a feeling this might just be generally broken in the revision of the kernel we're using, though it could be a problem with LFS in our glibc if it is trying to use fcntl64(). I suspect that our LFS stuff is generally broken (lseek64() is, at least) and plan to investigate further on Tuesday. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
