id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 205 -malign-double problem gerard@… lfs-book@… "From: ""Jean-Pierre Schwickerath"" To: ""LFS-Dev"" Subject: Fileutils Date: 30 Sep 2001 19:30:49 CEST I had a kinda nasty experience after compiling fileutils shared. The rm command gave the following error: --snip-- root:/usr/src/packages/fileutils-4.1# cd .. root:/usr/src/packages# rm -rf fileutils-4.1/ rm: ERROR: the directory `fileutils-4.1' initially had device/inode numbers 2050/134523408, but now (after a chdir into it), the numbers for `.' are 2050/3221224556. That means that while rm was running, the directory was replaced with either another directory or a link to another directory. root:/usr/src/packages# --snap-- I first thought it was reiserfs that I was using for the 1st time and so I reformated the partition with ext2 and began from scratch again. I had the same error. Then I saw that I had -malign-double in my CFLAGS. I removed it, recompiled fileutils package and... it worked! Bash has a similar behaviour, when it's compiled with -malign-double, it says it ignores null-byte-files and then issues a seg fault. We might warn users about using -malign-double in the optimization hint or even the book..." defect closed high Book CVS normal wontfix