Bug#769850: libc6: file not showing up
control: reassign -1 coreutils
control: retitle -1 coreutils: file not showing up
On 2014-11-16 20:27, westlake wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.19-12
> Severity: important
>
> There's a bug somewhere, and as seemingly obvious what the problem may be to
> one who is "new" to using commands, listing things with "ls" as an
> experienced user should list everything that is actually stored on the
> drive.
>
> simply,
> (1) "ls -la" was issued , and the file of interest
> "barnyard2_v2-1.13.tar.gz" did not display
>
> (2) mv ../barnyard2_v2-1.13.tar.gz .<enter>
>
> There's now a "prompt" to overwrite barnyard2_v2-1.13.tar.gz
>
> With everything still visual on terminal display and double checking there
> was no file of this name in the current path as there was indeed no more
> than 10 items to quicky glance from output.
>
> Again, with "everything still visual" -- meaning no scroll-up buffers with
> the terminal (which can sometimes cut display output) or anything, it was
> very clear "ls" was not outputting everything which is very odd.
>
> furthermore to check things,
> - There were no bash ls aliases, nor other "ls" in $PATH or other shell
> functions which could explain this
> - Filesystem consistency was also in good state
>
> ..coreutils 8.23-3 here on jessie/testing which contains the ls command
>
> Should I file a report to the coreutils package? I know there's a bug but
> currently I can't pinpoint exactly what may have caused this,
>
> fwiw, something a couple weeks ago I filed upstream concerning two filenames
> in the same path, another very rare bug.
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86541
>
> ^ If this is not an "ls" or an "libc" bug, then there indeed be a
> kernel/ext4 issue. I know there is nothing else that could be causing this
> (eg, faulty drive hardware), since this latest bugreport happened in VM
> which nullifies any hardware problems...
I really doubt it's a libc problem, it might be an issue with coreutils
or the kernel. I am reassigning the bug to the first one to have the
opinion of the maintainers.
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