Subject: [alpine-devel] Bug reports

From: Michael Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:07:22 +0000

1. I have several boxes running alpine linux. They have been up for  
several months. After a while of use the /dev/null device gets it  
permission changed. Some programs will not start/work properly after  
this happens. I have not been able to find the cause just yet.
I have had this happen on 2 boxes now. They are running different  
version of alpine. I haven't had the time to try 1.7.27.

alpine-1.7.22 080912
alpine-1.7.26 081107

The permissions seem like they need to be 666 but they get change to  
644.

2. I went to report the bug through the means found on the website
http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=FAQ#I_have_found_a_bug.2C_where_can_I_report_it.3F

Seems these pages are having bugs of there own...

http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/

The boxes that are installed aren't connected to the Internet, so I  
can't really use the sendbug feature in alpine.

If you need anymore details or have suggestions let me know.

Thanks

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:08:20 +0100

> The permissions seem like they need to be 666 but they get change to  

thanks for reporting this.

after a reboot the permissions are correct?
can you show the output of ls -l /dev/null?

> can't really use the sendbug feature in alpine.

right... i have been thinking of doing something about the bug reporting
system but been busy with other things :-/

we can use alpine-devel. sorry.

thanks!

> If you need anymore details or have suggestions let me know.

-nc

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From: Michael Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:43:00 +0000

> can you show the output of ls -l /dev/null?

I am sure a reboot would help it. I just changed the permissions by  
hand. Can't have the machine go down ;)
I will have to wait tell it happens again.
When the first one did it I thought it was because it was older. Now  
that the new one did it two I thought I should report it.

> we can use alpine-devel. sorry.

Thanks for your hard work in with this linux version. I like it so  
much I am starting to use it everywhere. Everywhere I don't need a GUI  
that is.

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:35:17 +0100

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:43 +0000, Michael Mason wrote:
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> that the new one did it two I thought I should report it.

could you please verify that your /dev/null is a blockdevice and not a
normal file?

$ ls -l /dev/null 
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1, 3 2008-12-03 08:46 /dev/null

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> much I am starting to use it everywhere. Everywhere I don't need a GUI  

thanks! :)

-nc

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From: Michael Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:08:56 +0000

> crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1, 3 2008-12-03 08:46 /dev/null

Misunderstood... Current output with permissions I have set after the  
problem was seen.
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   3 Sep 30 14:43 /dev/null

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