CUPS and LIBC defect?

[Sean Casey]

I have been struggling to upgrade CUPS v.2.1.3 to v.2.2.12 but kept getting rpm chmod errors.  I wanted to stick with an RPM install and avoid manually installing it.

I eventually came across a 10 year old post describing an issue with libc and how EAs are handled when using 386 HPFS.  Since I'm using 386 HPFS, I rebooted with the HPFS.IFS driver and then CUPS installed without any errors.

Is this a known issue with LIBC and 386 HPFS EAs that's going to remain unresolved?

[Dave Yeo]

There's http://trac.netlabs.org/libc/ticket/230 and http://trac.netlabs.org/libc/ticket/231.
Since Dmitriy seems to have some patches for these issues and Bitwise has taken over maintaining libc, perhaps pinging the tickets or such would help getting them fixed?

[Sean Casey]

Thank you Dave.

I wasn't able to create a new account on Trac or use their guest account.   I'll try again next week.

Hopefully, AN reads this board and spots this thread. While 386 HPFS isn't currently a supported configuration for them, it will be in 5.1 if they provide upgrades from 4.52.

[Dave Yeo]

Yes, Netlabs often has issues with creating an account. You can ask Adrian directly or perhaps better is to file an issue at https://github.com/bitwiseworks/libc/issues referencing the Netlabs issues  as well as your case.