Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fsync weirdness on 2.3.x??? | From | Andreas Degert <> | Date | 06 Jul 1999 12:17:52 +0200 |
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George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:
> I have a test system (SMP even) that I am using just to build and run > 2.3.x to help you guys get some feedback and I notice this if I try to use > Debian's package manager to install a package: > > dpkg: error processing procps_2.0.2-2.deb (--install): > unable to fsync updated status of `procps': Input/output error > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > unable to fsync updated status of `procps': Input/output error > > It will SOMETIMES work and it will SOMETIMES report this error. Error rate > is about 50% of the times I run dpkg.
I saw it reproducable with 2.3.9 on UP; strace shows ftruncate returning 0 but following fsync gives EIO. Didn't try 2.3.10.
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