Bug 448210 – app-arch/tar-1.26: on linux-2.6.14: tar: (directory): Cannot mkdir: Function not implemented

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robin Johnson 2012-12-22 19:06:58 UTC]

Upgrading an old box, and right after tar was upgraded from 1.23-r2 to 1.26, tar stopped working..

>>> app-arch/tar-1.26 merged.
>>> Emerging (7 of 10) sys-devel/make-3.82-r4
 * make-3.82.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 size ;-) ...                                                                                                     [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking make-3.82.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/make-3.82-r4/work
tar: make-3.82: Cannot mkdir: Function not implemented
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Portage 2.1.11.31 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.14-hardened-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.14-hardened-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-TM-_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-lang/python:          2.4.4-r13, 2.6.8
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      1.12.9-r2::<unknown repository>
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.4_p6::<unknown repository>, 1.5::<unknown repository>, 1.6.3::<unknown repository>, 1.7.9-r1::<unknown repository>, 1.8.5-r3::<unknown repository>, 1.9.6-r2::<unknown repository>, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            3.3.6-r1::<unknown repository>, 3.4.6-r2::<unknown repository>
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.2.10
sys-devel/make:           3.81-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.30-r1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.10.1-r1
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /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"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm hardened iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap ncurses nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre perl pic pppd python readline session ssl tcpd unicode urandom x86 xml 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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 rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa via vmware nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2012-12-22 19:52:55 UTC]

It looks like tar-1.26 calls mkdirat(2) to create directories. tar-1.23 called mkdir(2).

According to the mkdirat(2) manpage, that call was introduced in Linux 2.6.16.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2012-12-23 23:10:08 UTC]

we've started dropping support for kernels older than 2.6.16 on glibc systems.  in glibc-2.16, we now default that as the min kernel version.

so i'm not sure we should spend time on this.

[Comment 3 Hannes Erven 2013-04-26 08:01:07 UTC]

Shouldn't there be a conflict marker or kernel version check in the ebuild preventing people from running into this?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2014-08-12 12:10:06 UTC]

i've tested linux-2.6.21 and tar-1.28 and glibc-2.16.  it appears to work on the make-3.82.tar.bz2.

even tar-1.27.1 seems to work.