Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:42:59 -0400 From: David Banning <david+dated+1178732582.871d02@skytracker.ca> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't zip large files 2gb > Message-ID: <20070504174258.GB22281@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070503133418.GA90406@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20070502180815.GA50145@skytracker.ca> <20070502190950.GA84501@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20070503044136.GA57871@skytracker.ca> <25CFA57D-585A-43F1-A5EF-9A1F82BE0A16@hiwaay.net> <20070503170735.GA43512@skytracker.ca> <20070503185000.GA92554@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <60476.74.97.229.173.1178222987.squirrel@sq.3s1.com> <20070503210349.GA93637@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20070504071035.GB11530@skytracker.ca> <20070504130335.GA98604@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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> available. At least some of your utilities in /usr/bin are statically > linked. > > In 5.5 the statically linked utilities are in /stand, while dynamically > linked versions of the same are in their normal places. OK. > -r-xr-xr-x 30 root wheel 2046148 Nov 4 2004 /stand/gzip > > I would expect your gzip to be about the same 2M in size. Yes. It is. > > % ldd /stand/gzip /usr/bin/gzip > ldd: /stand/gzip: not a dynamic executable > /usr/bin/gzip: > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x28080000) > If you have sources I would try replacing those utilities. If that works > then we have exonerated your hardware, but now all your software is > suspect. I have upgraded my system to FreeBsd 4.9, the libc.so.5 in your case is libc.so.4 in my case but it looks like it has been rebuilt in the upgrade. I have downloaded and compiled the new 1.3.3 beta gzip from the gzip website, and built it with no difference in my problem resulting. I have uninstalled and re-installed bzip2 - also with the same eroneous results. What seems strange is that the failure is not a massive failure the gzipped and then gunzipped file is only 2 bites difference on a 3G file. I am wondering now if something could be amiss in my BIOS - any thoughts here?
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