On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:08, AAW wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:32 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> > > (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still
> > > reading this list)
> > >
> > > Well, at least partially. :-)
> > >
> > > In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new kernel
> > > (2.4.21- 0.24mdk) causing all files to be written as world
> > > writable, I noticed something else in my system processes.  My
> > > morning E-Mail from my nightly cron jobs reported:
> > >
> > > /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `m': invalid format
> > > character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid
> > > format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@':
> > > invalid format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf:
> > > `m': invalid format character
> > >
> > > Nothing has been changed in that file.  This only showed up with
> > > the new kernel in place.  Please go over the new kernel and release
> > > a bugfix for these two problems.  Thanks!
> >
> > Ummm... let's be a little logical here.
> >
> > Why would you blame the kernel for something in msec?  The kernel
> > touches /boot and /lib/modules... why would it have anything to do
> > with msec?
> >
> > Did you look at line 66 of that file?  What does it say?
> >
> > The previous issue could potentially be attributed to the kernel, but
> > I highly doubt it.  This one I think attributing to the kernel is
> > pretty far-fetched.
> 
> I'm now seeing similar behavior under both the old and new kernels. 
> However, I never saw the behavior before installing 0.24mdk.
> 
> kernel-2.4.21-0.24mdk:
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `U': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `y': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `T': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `p': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `m': invalid format character
> 
> 
> kernel-2.4.21-0.18md:
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `U': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `y': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `T': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `p': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `@': invalid format character
> /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 69: printf: `m': invalid format character
> 
> Below is a list of the packages installed since the last clean admin 
> report 07-22-2003 at 10:11:34 am. The arts packages are rebuilt from 
> cooker SRPMs. I also rebuilt and installed kdelibs (29mdk), but that 
> was after problem showed up.
> 
> libarts-devel-1.1.2-8mdk         Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:58 PM CDT
> arts-1.1.2-8mdk                  Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:56 PM CDT
> libarts-1.1.2-8mdk               Tue 22 Jul 2003 09:58:43 PM CDT
> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.24mdk        Tue 22 Jul 2003 04:21:12 PM CDT
> kernel-source-2.4.21-0.24mdk     Tue 22 Jul 2003 04:12:07 PM CDT
> kernel-2.4.21.0.24mdk-1-1mdk     Tue 22 Jul 2003 02:09:39 PM CDT
> 
> Arn

Arn,

   What languages do you run on this box and does /etc/sysconfig/i18n
have a lot of mention of UTF-8?

James



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