Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Craig Millar <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/06 04:48 +0200, stephan beal wrote:
> i can't even begin to think of why unless the permissions on your system
> files have been hosed somehow.
>
> stephan@owl:/lib> l ld-linux.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2006-06-21 14:29 ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.4.so
> stephan@owl:/lib> l ld-2*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 124463 2006-05-07 20:26 ld-2.4.so

Nope. Exactly the same here. md5sum for ld-2.4.so is also identical to my
home machine which is working fine.

> You can try mounting / with with the 'noatime' option (add it to
> your /etc/fstab), but i would be surprised if you really need this. It
> would be a kludgy workaround, at best.
>
> man mount:
> ...
>     noatime
>      Do not update inode access times on this file system (e.g, for
> faster access on the news spool to speed
>      up news servers).
>
>
> The theory being, if EPERM really is caused by the O_NOATIME flag, that
> turning of atime updates for that filesystem might work around the
> problem.

This didn't work either, alas.

> Aside from that, i'm clueless as to what might cause this.

Makes two of us! Thanks for your time anyways.
Best
Craig