NetBSD Problem Report #40636
From bad@bsd.de Sat Feb 14 01:54:56 2009
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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:55:47 +0100 (CET)
From: bad@bsd.de (Christoph Badura)
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Subject: fsck_ffs leaves zero lenght symlinks behind
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>Number: 40636
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: fsck_ffs doesn't remove truncated symlinks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 14 01:55:00 +0000 2009
>Originator: Christoph Badura
>Release: NetBSD 5.99.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD not-invented-here 5.99.4 NetBSD 5.99.4 (gaol_domu) #1: Sat Feb 14 01:41:47 CET 2009 bad@not-invented-here:/home/bad/gaol_domu i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
after a panic and being the kernel hanging in "syncing filesystems"
fsck truncated some symlinks that were created shortly before the
panic by a "make" in a kernel compilation directory and left
zero length symlinks behind.
>How-To-Repeat:
"cd GENERIC && make"
break into ddb and
"reboot 4"
get lucky
>Fix:
unknown.
>Unformatted:
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