[2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE
Hi
I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.
Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer
I'm seeing this as well, and will be quite happy to try any patches that might come out for the problem.
Danek
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could you send full strace for this?
Complete strace can be found here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~azarah/trace.log.bz2
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Martin Schlemmer (MS) writes:
MS> Hi
MS> I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not MS> really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.MS> Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE MS> support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. MS> It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage MS> installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the MS> hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
MS> It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
MS> Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, MS> so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated MS> if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what MS> is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and MS> I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
MS> A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
MS> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
MS> Thanks,
MS> --
MS> Martin Schlemmer
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Martin Schlemmer
I can take a look at it.
Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some package to make it happen.
Thanks,
Chris
Quoted 32 lines · Martin Schlemmer
Hi
I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.
Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer
Quoted 6 lines · Christopher Li
I can take a look at it.
Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some package to make it happen.
I cannot really see that it is a Gentoo specific problem, but who knows. I will try to get a CD of another distro somewhere, and get that on a box to test - currently work/whatnot just keeps me pretty tied up :( Another reason why I posted, is now that 2.6 is more widely used/tested, its not only me that gets this, but other users as well - thus I hoped that somebody with more time wanted to have a crack at it.
Back to the problem - on the same system, a 2.4 kernel works fine, but a 2.5/6 kernel activates a race that creates an invalid entry. I guess the primary reason why not many people see this, is because most non-Gentoo folk do not compile perl-5.8.0 from source.
Just grab the perl source, if you want, I can mail you the ebuild that should give some direction in how to compile it, or grab your local .spec, configure it (maybe with install location not in /), and then just compile and finally install to a ext3 FS with HTREE enabled. Usually over here, it keeps on leaving an invalid entry to ..usr/share/man/man3/Hash::Util.tmp.
If it works fine (with a 2.6 kernel), I will go and bang my head against a wall, and shutup until I can make time to try and track this - if not, any ideas as to creating it outside the perl install (or rather the man page part of the install process) would be great.
Thanks,
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Thanks,
Chris
Quoted 32 lines · Martin Schlemmer
Hi
I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.
Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer
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Martin Schlemmer
It is possible to install gentoo in a subdir of your main box, just unzip the tarball
into that directory, then chroot to it and follow the rest of the steps for installation
(skipping kernel, bootloader, syslog, etc of course), then you can test stuff out by just chrooting to the gentoo dir, and doing "env-update ; source /etc/profile".
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I can take a look at it.
Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some package to make it happen.
Thanks,
Chris
Quoted 19 lines · Martin Schlemmer
Hi
I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.
Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days, so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what is required. There are a few users that experience this issue, and I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
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A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer-
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