[Bug 1032831] upstream patch:

2012-08-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's the likely upstream patch: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/699/focus=705 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032831 Title: zgrep -NUM doesn't work if NUM is

Re: [Bug 955624] Re: md5sum command calculate different code for the same file

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Birol Bora wrote: The problem is being caused by faulty memory. I scanned the memory with a memory test tools. I've found a memory card is defective and replaced with a new one. Problem solved. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid Thanks for letting us know. --

Re: [Bug 955624] [NEW] md5sum command calculate different code for the same file

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Birol Bora wrote: Public bug reported: I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 When I execute md5sum command its calculate different code for the same file birol@trax:~/Downloads$ uname -a Linux trax 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [Bug 908354] Re: tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anything (livecd cow overlayfs)

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
[ following up to this report, http://bugs.launchpad.net/+source/coreutils/+bug/908354 ] Tuomas Heino wrote: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ stat -f --format %t:%T /var/log 1021994:tmpfs Thanks. Unlike most file system types, overlayFS appears to have no magic number. Now we're seeing how using files on

Re: [Bug 908354] [NEW] tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anything (livecd cow overlayfs)

2011-12-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Tuomas Heino wrote: Public bug reported: Doing tail -f on /var/log/kern.log (which gets appended every 10 seconds) does not print anyting. May be an issue with the livecd / how overlayfs works. In any case tail should at least complain if underlaying fs does not properly support whatever

Re: [Bug 833587] Re: du assert failure: du:du.c :583 : process_file:L'assertion« level== prev_level -1 »aéchoué.

2011-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833587 Title: du assert failure: du: du.c :583 : process_file: L'assertion « level == prev_level - 1 » a échoué. ... ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6 ... AssertionMessage: du: du.c :583 : 

Re: [Bug 868747] Re: fmt -f unlimited should be supported

2011-10-06 Thread Jim Meyering
jimav wrote: Strictly speaking this is an enhancement request. fmt imposes an artificial limit on the maximum output line length controlled by the -f option, which prevents using this tool to join You meant -w, not -f, throughout. Thanks for the suggestion. Note that the code has

Re: [Bug 784758] Re: Wrong documentation for 'od'

2011-05-21 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: Upstream has been faster on the uptake than I was. I had just tested coreutils GIT, and found the same issue, and was preparing an email to bugs-coreutils (and finding who are the translators for French). I should have done that already... instead I initially thought it was

Re: [Bug 591969] Re: dd: cryptic error message when bs=unreasonably large value

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Dave Gilbert wrote: Just reading the patch, I'm not sure that's solving both cases - i.e. 1) That there is a problem if your value is too large for RAM (i.e. a memory exhausted) 2) There is something saying 'invalid number' on large values, and that seems to depend on the word

[Bug 591969] Re: dd: cryptic error message when bs=unreasonably large value

2010-06-14 Thread Jim Meyering
: ~1GiB and ~8EiB I went ahead and wrote the patch: From d8e0d2d0efba4fa9c5bc1c29bf7e0028dd292237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:15:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: dd: discourage use of very large block sizes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type

[Bug 412069] Re: stat reports wrong fundamental block size

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
As far as I can see, there is no problem with code being out of sync. If you can point to specifics, please let me know, since I'm about to release coreutils-7.5 upstream. However, note that with glibc and a linux kernel, the stat program always uses statfs, and not statvfs. This is a deliberate

[Bug 370065] Re: sort seg faults

2009-04-30 Thread Jim Meyering
I fixed that upstream with this change: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=25eb4c69097ca4f5665b050cfa4247a19ffd8c55 -- sort seg faults https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370065 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 154602] Re: incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo

2009-03-30 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: Interesting. Jim Meyring's answer did not make it here (although, AFAICS, it was correctly addressed). So, here it is: Thanks for forwarding that. It didn't go through because I sent it with a From address not matching the subscribed one. -- incorrect cp(1) behaviour

[Bug 200234] Re: nice crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort()

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
nice doesn't call qsort directly, but rather only via libc's setlocale function. As such, I suggest you reassign this report to glibc. -- nice crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200234 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 119819] Re: scanimage -L crashes with HP ScanJet 4100c

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi, I had the same problem and have just worked around it. Here's the report w/patch I've just sent upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/12601 -- scanimage -L crashes with HP ScanJet 4100c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119819 You received this bug

[Bug 59083] fchownat ignores AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag

2006-09-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Public bug reported: already reported here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- users/2006-September/093218.html ** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- fchownat ignores AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag https://launchpad.net/bugs/59083 --

[Bug 48917] Re: shred manpage is mangled.

2006-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks for the report. I've just fixed this upstream: 2006-08-13 Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/shred.c (usage): Don't indent the second line of an item. Otherwise, help2man would misformat the output. Reported by Adam Buchbinder in https://launchpad.net/bugs