Subject: Re: Bug involving mdir
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Fri Dec 10 1999 - 20:51:45 MST
Like you, I don't even have a floppy drive connected to the machine. I just
tried it again with the same result. Specifically, I entered
mdir tmp/blah
as a non-root user in a kvt terminal. The system locked up for about 2 minutes
and then rebooted.
There is nothing particularly unique about the system. 99% of what is
installed either came directly off of YD CD or the YD site.
Jim
Stephen Edie's bits of Thu, 9 Dec 1999 translated to:
> Hmm, I just 'bravely' tried it on my system without a floppy disk (or a
> floppy drive for that matter) and it did what I would expect it to do.
> "Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device\nCannot initialize 'A:'"
>
> Did you have a floppy disk in the drive when you typed, err mistyped it?
>
> Stephen
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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>
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jim Cole wrote:
>
> > While attempting to create a directory, I had a finger glitch and ended up
> > typing mdir <somedir> rather than mkdir <somedir>. The result was that it
> > completely toasted the system. Everything locked up rock solid. I went to
> > another room and tried to log into the machine with no luck. When I got
> > back, the machine was rebooting.
> >
> > Is this a known issue? Seems a pretty stiff penalty for a typo as a
> > non-root user ;) Good thing I don't actually need mtools.
> >
> > This problem occurred on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) installed with CS 1.1
> > and the "experimental" 2.2.12 kernel released for YellowDog.
> >
> > Linux freyr.yggdrasill.net 2.2.12-2 #1 Fri Oct 8 18:07:08 MDT 1999 ppc
> > unknown
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
>
>
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