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 -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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