strange koji build failures...?

[Jim Meyering]

Ondřej Vašík <ovasik at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Eric Blake fixed that with this change to gnulib's utimens.c:
>>
>>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=93f08406537
>
> I know about the fix (was causing troubles with test-suite) - therefore
> that patch is already part of the coreutils-6.12-1.fc10 build - so it
> will not solve the troubles with koji. Problem seems to be in return
> code 280 from futimensat() call. So futimensat is available, but failing
> - the same problem as I had with the coreutils test suite few weeks ago
> (if you remember touch/create-no-missing issue). I would say koji xen
> kernel issue, but could be workarounded by Fedora coreutils.

Hi Ondřej,

I think you're right that it's a kernel problem.
I've proposed a patch attached to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/449910
as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=308374
that might suffice to work around the problem.

Can you test it?

Thanks,

Jim