Bug 340190 – sys-apps/file-5.0{3,4} identifies apache error_log as C++

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Evert 2010-10-08 20:26:07 UTC]

$ file error_log 
error_log: ASCII C++ program text

$ file --mime-type error_log 
error_log: text/x-c++

The file is an apache error_log and definitely no C++ program. Even with a lot of imagination, it doesn't even look like it...
I truncated the error_log to 5 lines (attached), and it's still identified as C++

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download the attached error_log (or maybe try your own)
2. file error_log
3. file --mime-type error_log

Actual Results:  
$ file error_log 
error_log: ASCII C++ program text

$ file --mime-type error_log 
error_log: text/x-c++

Expected Results:  
$ file error_log 
error_log: ASCII text

$ file --mime-type error_log 
error_log: text/plain

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35.5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.35.5-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2600+-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /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"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB nl de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/packages/amd_athlon-xp"
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="/compile"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa ao apache2 apm berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cpudetection cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gimp gmp gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv icu imlib ipv6 java jpeg latex lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate mad mikmod mmx mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile sni soundtouch spell sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vorbis wmf x264 x86 xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" 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" LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB nl de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="pixma" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev v4l nv nvidia" 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, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Evert 2010-10-08 20:28:22 UTC]

Created attachment 249970 [details]
apache error_log

[Comment 2 Evert 2010-10-09 01:30:07 UTC]

I contacted the author for 3 gentoo bugs about sys-apps/file-5.0{3,4}, and he says this bug is fixed on head.