bug#47348: Possible bug coreutils : no cat command

2021-03-23 Thread Luís via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
    In a reinstallation of Linux Mint 20 ( based on the ubuntu 20 focal fossa ), I found that the cat command, supported by the Coreutils package (8.30-ubuntu2) is no longer working. I tried to reinstall ( just reinstall, because purge breaks the system, so I couldn't test removing possibly bugg

bug#47324: AW: bug#47324: Missing information in documentation

2021-03-23 Thread Walter Harms via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
In my case there was no security context involved. It was a loop device mounted (that i was not aware of, the image was already gone). and rm -r stoped here because of "in use". I expected some mentioning of mount somewhere. re, wh Von: Bernhard Voelker

bug#47348: Possible bug coreutils : no cat command

2021-03-23 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 3/23/21 12:22 PM, Luís via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > I found that the cat command, supported by the Coreutils package > (8.30-ubuntu2) is no longer working. That's quite a vague description, so no one will probably be able to help you based on that. What exactly happens when you run

bug#47348: Possible bug coreutils : no cat command

2021-03-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/23/21 4:22 AM, Luís via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:     In a reinstallation of Linux Mint 20 ( based on the ubuntu 20 focal fossa ), I found that the cat command, supported by the Coreutils package (8.30-ubuntu2) is no longer working. Please send a bug report to the Linux Mint main

bug#47352: Numbered backups also need kept-new-versions else will grow out of control

2021-03-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
(info "(coreutils) Backup options") has "numbered", but without a corresponding limit factor, these can grow beyond belief. So coreutils also needs a way to say like emacs does: kept-new-versions is a variable defined in ‘files.el’. Documentation: Number of newest versions to keep when a new numb

bug#47353: Numbered backups also need kept-new-versions else will grow out of control

2021-03-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Or (info "(coreutils) Backup options") should "admit" that "Numbered backups need to be trimmed occasionally by the user, lest the fill up the disk."