On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:18, Ian P. Christian wrote:
> # fdisk -l
> Unable to seek on /dev/sda
strace of the fdisk - not sure if it will help at all, but I thought it was
worth posting:
# strace fdisk /dev/sda
execve("/sbin/fdisk", ["fdisk", "/dev/sda"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="bb4", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8001eb18
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18962, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 18962, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fd7000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0yQ\1\000"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1209032, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7fd6000
mmap2(NULL, 1141820, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) =
0xb7ebf000
mmap2(0xb7fd0000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x111) = 0xb7fd0000
mmap2(0xb7fd4000, 7228, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fd4000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7ebe000
mprotect(0xb7fd0000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x8001a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7ff2000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7ebe6b0, limit:1048575,
seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1,
seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0xb7fd7000, 18962) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\340+\r\304", 4) = 4
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8001eb18
brk(0x8003fb18) = 0x8003fb18
brk(0x80040000) = 0x80040000
open("/dev/sda", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
read(3, "\353H\220\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 512) =
512
uname({sys="Linux", node="bb4", ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, BLKSSZGET, 0xbfff39dc) = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(8, 0), ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x301, 0xbfff39d8) = 0
ioctl(3, BLKGETSIZE, 0xbfff39cc) = 0
ioctl(3, BLKGETSIZE64, 0xbfff39c0) = 0
_llseek(0, 0, 0xbfff3968, SEEK_SET) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(2, "\n", 1
) = 1
write(2, "Unable to seek on /dev/sda\n", 27Unable to seek on /dev/sda
) = 27
exit_group(1) = ?
--
Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk
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