[Nix-dev] Fwd: Re: write_file '/etc/passwd.tmp' - syswrite: Bad address

Tomasz Kontusz tomasz.kontusz at gmail.com
Mon May 18 10:33:25 CEST 2015



I'm not sure, I've seen a similar problem some time in the last month. I assumed it's a broken file (laptop HDD, btrfs is a young FS, I kind of expect occasional problem :-)), but fsck showed no problems with any passwd file.

Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> napisał:
>Well, that looks like hardware corruption somewhere. Might I recommend
>using zfs or btrfs as your filesystem to ensure integrity?
>
>On Sat, May 16, 2015, 4:58 PM Amy de Buitléir <amy at nualeargais.ie>
>wrote:
>
>> Wout Mertens <wout.mertens <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > so weird... what was the corruption?
>>
>> Halfway through the file, there was stuf like this:
>>
>> Ã<U+0083>Â<U+0083>Ã<U+0082>Â<U+0083>Ã<U+0083>Â<U+0082>...
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