Package: coreutils Version: 6.12-1 Severity: normal Because touch returns error, several things fail, like installing libc6 update today. I suspect this broke with 6.12-1 update.
Here is strace from machine in question, running debian touch open("foo", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666) = 3 dup2(3, 0) = 0 close(3) = 0 utimensat(0, NULL, NULL, 0) = 280 Here same machine running touch from ubuntu (works normally) open("foo", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 0 utimensat(0, NULL, NULL, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) utimes("/proc/self/fd/0", NULL) = 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.9-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org