From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 22 10:58:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cmpharm.ucsf.edu (cmpharm.ucsf.edu [128.218.67.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBCE37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from piglet.ucsf.edu (steve@piglet.ucsf.edu [128.218.67.20]) by cmpharm.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0MIc6A25832 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:38:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by piglet.ucsf.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA279379 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:58:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:58:01 -0800 From: Steve Sizemore To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Are pipes broken in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20010122105801.A277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the last week or so, all of the kernels that I've built have been having trouble with pipes. Port extractions fail, makewhatis fails, all sorts of things generate error messages. The simplest example is tar - e.g. # tar tzvf /usr/ports/distfiles/cfengine-1.6.1.tar.gz >/dev/null gzip: stdout: Broken pipe tar: child returned status 1 gunzip, followed by tar xf, works just fine, so I don't think it's a gzip or tar problem. Besides, other things fail which don't (apparently) use gzip or tar, but do use pipes. And, not all pipes, fail, but I haven't been able to determine what causes some to fail. This occurs on both intel and alpha. I have to believe that this is something local to my setup - I haven't seen anyone else discuss it on the list. Still I've tried almost everything I can think of, even dropping back to a GENERIC kernel, and still see the same behavior. Right now, I'm re-cvsupping the sources, and I'll try building GENERIC from virgin sources, but, in the meanwhile, does anyone have a clue what might be the problem? Thanks. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- # # # # Steve Sizemore # # # Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # University of California Medical Center # # # # 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # # # steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # # # # -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message