Package: moreutils Version: 0.40 Severity: grave File: /usr/bin/sponge Strangely, this only happens on squeeze systems, not on sid, although sponge is the same version on both. Hence, it's quite likely a dependency problem, probably libc6. Or the kernel (2.6.32 vs. 2.6.35):
sponge seems to lose data, without a warning or an exit code
telling me about it. It should.
% dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | sponge | wc -c
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.591491 s, 177 MB/s
67108864
% dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | sponge >/dev/null && echo successful exit
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.583197 s, 180 MB/s
successful exit
% ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 12281
-n: file descriptors 1024
-l: locked-in-memory size (kb) 32
-v: address space (kb) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 12281
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 0
-r: max rt priority 0
% df -T $TMPDIR
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/bell-srv
ext3 464752376 229846764 211297500 53% /srv
I am marking this grave because I just had to restore all my IRC
logs from the past decade and stitch them back together. Fortunately
I had a backup. This might not always be the case.
strace attached, if it helps.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages moreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii perl 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
moreutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages moreutils suggests:
pn libtime-duration-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
-- no debconf information
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