Of course, it can only be memory corruption if it is not repeatable, otherwise there's something weird about the call Perl makes to syswrite(), definitely a bug somewhere then.
On Sat, May 16, 2015, 3:03 PM Wout Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh wow I never saw that before, and in a Perl script no less. > I think you may have memory corruption? Does memtest86 work fine? > > Wout. > > On Sat, May 16, 2015, 2:59 PM Amy de Buitléir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sigh... new problem: >> >> [root@wombat9000:~]# nixos-rebuild switch >> building Nix... >> building the system configuration... >> activating the configuration... >> setting up /etc... >> warning: not applying UID change of user ‘ntp’ >> write_file '/etc/passwd.tmp' - syswrite: Bad address at >> /nix/store/a218r8idpw52c652vy44d9zvfjf82jbc-update-users-groups.pl line >> 217. >> warning: error(s) occured while switching to the new configuration >> >> >> What I have tried: >> 1. Ran badblocks, which found no bad blocks on my system. >> 2. nixos-rebuild switch --repair, which gave the same error. >> 3. nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair >> >> [root@wombat9000:~]# nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair >> reading the Nix store... >> checking path existence... >> checking hashes... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >
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