On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:28, Christopher Li wrote: > I can take a look at it. > > Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the > whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some > package to make it happen. > I cannot really see that it is a Gentoo specific problem, but who knows. I will try to get a CD of another distro somewhere, and get that on a box to test - currently work/whatnot just keeps me pretty tied up :( Another reason why I posted, is now that 2.6 is more widely used/tested, its not only me that gets this, but other users as well - thus I hoped that somebody with more time wanted to have a crack at it. Back to the problem - on the same system, a 2.4 kernel works fine, but a 2.5/6 kernel activates a race that creates an invalid entry. I guess the primary reason why not many people see this, is because most non-Gentoo folk do not compile perl-5.8.0 from source. Just grab the perl source, if you want, I can mail you the ebuild that should give some direction in how to compile it, or grab your local .spec, configure it (maybe with install location not in /), and then just compile and finally install to a ext3 FS with HTREE enabled. Usually over here, it keeps on leaving an invalid entry to ..usr/share/man/man3/Hash::Util.tmp. If it works fine (with a 2.6 kernel), I will go and bang my head against a wall, and shutup until I can make time to try and track this - if not, any ideas as to creating it outside the perl install (or rather the man page part of the install process) would be great. Thanks, > Thanks, > > Chris > > > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:37:05PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not > > really confirmed, so I have let it be at that. > > > > Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE > > support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. > > It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage > > installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the > > hash (this possible?) and cause issues. > > > > It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still. > > > > Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, > > so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated > > if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what > > is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and > > I am sure that we can get whatever info needed. > > > > A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info: > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991 > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > > > Martin Schlemmer > > > > > > > > -- Martin Schlemmer
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