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Bug 266735

Summary: coreutils-7.1: /bin/touch broken on openvz kernel 2.6.18-028stab053.14
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alexey Borzenkov <snaury>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: critical    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexey Borzenkov 2009-04-19 08:58:56 UTC
Just upgraded to coreutils-7.1 and suddenly portage stops working because it can't touch ${PORTAGE_BUILDDIR}/.unpacked}: /bin/touch replies with error "Bad Address". I'm using Gentoo on a VPS hosting and can't control the kernel. As I understand it my hoster is using openvz.

This issue is especially serious because it does not allow one to easily downgrade to previous version to coreutils: portage becomes totally broken.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Alexey Borzenkov 2009-04-19 09:07:08 UTC
Update: if anybody else gets blown by this bug, download 2008.0 stage3 and take /bin/touch from there. Then you can downgrade with emerge -av "<coreutils-7".
Comment 2 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-04-19 09:27:44 UTC

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