Tru64-UNIX-Managers,
Several of our users have reported this strange behavior exhibited from the
"rm" and "cp"
commands on several of our servers running Tru64 UNIX.
The following occurred on an ES40 running Tru64 UNIX v4.0F with patch kit 4
installed.
This problem has also surfaced on a GS140 running Tru64 UNIX v4.0f with
patch kit 3
installed.
Problem Description:
A user changes to a directory, performs a listing and identifies a file that
he/she wants to
remove. The user then executes the rm command to remove the file and
receives the error
message "rm: <filename>: No such file or directory". Afterwards the user
performs listing
in the directory again and the file has been removed. In the following
example a user was
trying to remove a file called, chr2.tags.Z:
pwli_at_chmap (15) !!
ls -l
total 4309488
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 538718 Dec 9 15:35 chr2.cnts.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 72605 Dec 10 10:55 chr2.lin
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 72605 Dec 10 10:56 chr2.lin.sort
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pwli chrmap 1201397760 Dec 11 23:45 chr2.tag7.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 1369241803 Dec 6 22:43 chr2.tags.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 1841428433 Dec 7 04:04 chr2.tags.sort.Z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pwli chrmap 42 Dec 4 22:36 chr_fasta_at_ ->
/work/chrom5/projects/map/SCFmap/chr_fasta/
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 95 Dec 6 21:42 dotags
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pwli chrmap 2455 Dec 9 14:49 getsegcnt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pwli chrmap 46 Dec 8 10:52 good_9.2_at_ ->
/work/jamboree/holy_grail/temp/gnth_3/good_9.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pwli chrmap 1055 Dec 10 10:55 linreg*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 pwli chrmap 635 Dec 11 12:12 tagger*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pwli chrmap 14560 Dec 11 22:59 tags
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 170 Dec 6 22:51 tagtail
-rw-r--r-- 1 pwli chrmap 170 Dec 7 10:12 tailtags
drwxr-xr-x 2 pwli chrmap 8192 Dec 7 04:04 tmp/
pwli_at_chmap (16) ps x
PID TTY S TIME CMD
11327 ?? U 10:53.64 compress
11336 ?? R 46:05.20 perl tagger 7
12358 ttypa S 0:00.11 -csh (csh)
pwli_at_chmap (17) rm chr2.tags.Z
rm: remove chr2.tags.Z? y
rm: chr2.tags.Z: No such file or directory
pwli_at_chmap (18) ls
chr2.cnts.Z chr2.tags.sort.Z good_9.2_at_ tagtail
chr2.lin chr_fasta_at_ linreg* tailtags
chr2.lin.sort dotags tagger* tmp/
chr2.tag7.Z getsegcnt* tags
Additionally, other users have had similar problems with the "cp" command.
A user runs
a simple script that finds and creates files in the /tmp area and then
copies them to a file
system. In 6 of approx. 500000 operations the user received "file not
found" errors from the
"cp" command. However, the files were created and copied to the correct
place.
Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? Has anyone else
encountered
this problem? Is there a fix for this problem? Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
John
Received on Wed Dec 13 2000 - 22:22:09 NZDT