here is a bug in release-3.3: ./xinstall -c -p -r -m 555 xinstall /pfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-6.99.4-i386/bin/i386--netbsdelf-instal xinstall: /pfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-6.99.4-i386/bin/inst.00033a: chmod: Permission denied Kernel trace, client side: 33 1 xinstall CALL open(0xbfbfd8e0,0xa02,0x180) 33 1 xinstall NAMI "/pfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-6.99.4-i38 6/bin/inst.00033a" 33 1 xinstall RET open 3 33 1 xinstall CALL open(0x (...) 33 1 xinstall CALL fchmod(3,0x16d) 33 1 xinstall RET fchmod -1 errno 13 Permission denied I tracked this down to posix_acl_truncate() on the server, where loc->inode and loc->pah are NULL. This code goes red and raise EACCESS: if (acl_permits (frame, loc->inode, POSIX_ACL_WRITE)) goto green; else goto red; Here is the relevant baccktrace: #9 0xb99d1ca6 in posix_acl_truncate (frame=0xbb77f780, this=0xb9d20000, loc=0xb9d41020, off=48933, xdata=0x0) at posix-acl.c:898 #10 0xb99ba4f8 in truncate_stat_cbk (frame=0xbb77f400, cookie=0xbb77f6a0, this=0xb9d22000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, buf=0xb89ffac4, xdata=0x0) at posix.c:204 #11 0xbbb87933 in default_stat_cbk (frame=0xbb77f6a0, cookie=0xbb77f710, this=0xb9d20000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, buf=0xb89ffac4, xdata=0x0) at defaults.c:47 #12 0xb99e1751 in posix_stat (frame=0xbb77f710, this=0xb9d1f000, loc=0xba60091c, xdata=0x0) at posix.c:231 In frame 12, loc->inode is not NULL, and loc->path makes sense: "<gfid:9d92d4e5-2e70-4183-ab97-39fe2b5380b3>/netbsd/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-6.9 9.4-i386/bin/inst.01911a" In frame 10, loc->path and loc->inode are NULL. In note that xlators/features/locks/src/posix.c:pl_ftruncate() sets truncate_stat_cbk() as the callback, and not ftruncate_stat_cbk(). That later function does not even exist. f-style functions not calling f-style callbacks have been the root of various bugs so far, is it one more of them? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx