Bugzilla Bug 267669

1. login as root
2. cd /
3. touch test
touch: setting times of `test': Bad address

It seems like this issue is a duplicate of 224483, but now it occurs in
coreutils 7.1

due to this issue emerge is not possible.

virtual server, right? Please post emerge --info. 

I'm 95% positive this is a dupe of bug 266735 in which case you need to upgrade
the openvz kernel, if you can't you need to get your providor to upgrade it.

Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.18-028stab056-aufs-teak12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.18-028stab056-aufs-teak12-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5430_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:17 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms
strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en ru"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt curl cvs djvu
dovecot-sasl dri exif fastcgi fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif gpm iconv idn
isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k lua mailwrapper mbox midi mono mp3 mssql mudflap
mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openexr openmp pam pcre perl pg-intdatetime php
png pop3d postgres pppd python raw readline reflection ruby sasl session spl
sqlite sqlite3 ssl subversion suexec svg sysfs tcl tcpd tiff truetype unicode
vim-syntax webdav x86 xinetd xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop
empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul
mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions
alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file
authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user
autoindex cache charset_lite dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env
expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio
mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_http rewrite setenvif speling
status substitute unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
APACHE2_MPMS="peruser" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint
i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga
via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

233280 is the one. This is a kernel bug. Get your provider to upgrade their (by
now ancient-ish) kernel.
As a work-around, do:
cd /
wget
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2.tbz2
tar -xjf coreutils-6.10-r2.tbz2
<insert praying>
If this works, you should now mask >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.12
and do:
emerge -1 coreutils (to get your system into a sane state again)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233280 ***

Thanx for help. I asked my provider to upgrade the kernel. Meanwhile your
workaround worked for me.