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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: pkg_add, ... BUG Date: 3 Jun 1996 03:04:28 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4otkns$ctl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: igor@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello! Let me tell you the story how I've lost about 80MB: 1. Loaded the latest emacs package from ftp.freeebsd.org 2. Run pkg_add with the option to show the process, but not to implement. (I set the enviroment variable for the temp directory on another partition) 3. After a while, I decided to interrupt pkg_add with Ctrl-C 4. pkg_add said: "caught signal 2, cleaning up" Then I waited a little bit, assuming that it is cleaning up all the temporary files after itself... Then I Ctrl-Z-suspended it, found that it's still deleting something (I saw rm... in ps, but didn't pay attention to what it's removing) then I fg-ed it. IN a while it finished with the message that it can not delete some directory (that directory was in my home directory but had root permissions on it) Then I found that everything in my home-directory is gone except that one directory and files in it. (pwd was ~ ) Fortunately, I was doing that as a user and not as root. (that proofs the use of my habbit to do as much as possible as a user) So, I hope, the developers can pay attetintion to this bug, and users can be aware of such a trap. Best Regards, IgoR --- StR@komkon.org