Can the whole task for Ubuntu be marked wontfix? (I can't do it) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tar in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539814
Title: tar: futimens() with a bad file descriptor (AT_FDCWD) causes bootstrapping failure with kernels < 2.6.22 Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in tar package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in debootstrap source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Status in tar source package in Lucid: Fix Released Status in tar package in Debian: Fix Released Status in tar package in Fedora: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: tar Bootstrapping Ubuntu Lucid with debootstrap is currently impossible with any kernel < 2.6.22, due to a bug in tar - specifically it fails because of a change to eglibc. According to the debian bug report It seems that before eglibc 2.10.2-3, calls to futimens failed silently, however due to a patch made to eglibc 2.10.2-3, if futimens is called without a valid file descriptor, it now fails with an "Bad File Descriptor" error, because the corresponding utimensat() syscall was not added until kernel 2.6.22 Test Case: 1) Boot a kernel older than 2.6.22 2) Attempt to Bootstrap Ubuntu Lucid to any target. The bootstrap will fail once it attempts to unpack packages with: tar: ./postinst: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor A patch is available (attached in launchpad) originating from the associated debian bug, that ensures that futimens is only called with a valid file descriptor. A debdiff for 1.22-2 ( changing to 1.22-2ubuntu1 ) will be attached shortly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/539814/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
