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Bug 266735 - coreutils-7.1: /bin/touch broken on openvz kernel 2.6.18-028stab053.14
Summary: coreutils-7.1: /bin/touch broken on openvz kernel 2.6.18-028stab053.14
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233280
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2009-04-19 08:58 UTC by Alexey Borzenkov
Modified: 2009-04-19 09:27 UTC (History)
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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

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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 ***