Re: problem with cp-command

[Peter Landgren]

Hi,

Some more tests. Its only with certain files from certain users I get this 
problem.

What if I used "install" in stead of "cp" to copy the same file:

address@hidden progdev]# cp -f /home/progdev/TESTOFCP/test3.txt 
/cptest/test3progdev.txt
cp: setting attributes for "/cptest/test3progdev.txt": Operationen stöds ej 
(Translates to "Operation not supported")

(The file is copied OK)

When I use install, which also copies files, all is OK and no error message!
address@hidden progdev]# install -c -m 644 /home/progdev/TESTOFCP/test3.txt 
/cptest/test3installprogdev.txt
address@hidden progdev]#

(The file is copied OK)

This might indicate that there are no disk I/O errors?

/Peter

> Peter Landgren wrote:
> > I have done some more tests. It seems that the problem only appears when I 
> > copy from one specific user.
> 
> A specified user?  Or a specific file?  (I am thinking about something
> particular here...)
> 
> > I created a new user copied sip-4.6.tar.gz, unpacked it and run
> > pytgon configure.py, make did a su and "make install" and now
> > everything worked just fine. So there is some problem with the "old"
> > user, but I cant' figure out what it is.
> 
> Which seems to show that there is nothing intrically wrong with the
> programs or file permissions.  Is the filesystem full?
> 
> > However, I tried to install PyQt-X11-4.2 from this new user, and at the end 
> > of the install process I got the same error again, when there were just two 
> > files left to copy! There were hundreds of cp-commands in this install.
> > 
> > What's going on? Is it a problem with cp or is it a problem with the
> > Mandriva Spring distro?
> 
> Do any errors show up in your system's syslog file?  (Usually
> /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages but I am not familiar with
> Mandriva and you may have to find the right file.)  Are there any disk
> I/O errors being reported there?
> 
> This is beginning to sound like hardware failure.  It would be
> plausible to me that when certain disk sectors are accessed that it
> would generate errors and cp would fail.  But access other disk
> sections and everything succeeds.
> 
> > > > As I do this as root, cp should not complain?
> 
> The root superuser will have permission and therefore all permission
> errors should be avoided.  But even root will fail when the filesystem
> is full.  And root has no permission over NFS.  While being root
> avoids permission problems locally it does not guarantee that there
> won't be other problems.
> 
> Bob
> 



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