Error: Can't open directory "blah" (stat() returns -1)

[Joel]

Binary package hint: tagtool

Expected: tagtool would load up a list of mp3's from the specified directory.

Actual:

tagtool failed to open a cifs mounted directory.
It failed with the message: 'Error: Can't open directory "/mnt/Music" '
The stat call in file_list.c:check_working_dir() fails with a return value of -1.

I was able to get it to work by using the following steps:
1. apt-get build-dep tagtool
2. apt-get source tagtool
3. cd tagtool-0.12.3
4. CFLAGS="-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g" ./configure && make && make install

I have a directory mounted using cifs from fstab.
The fstab entry looks like this:
//192.168.1.2/Music /mnt/Music cifs rw,username=SomeUser,credentials=/root/.smb_creds,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

The cifs server is a window home server box (essentially windows server 2003 sp2).

aptitude show tagtool
Package: tagtool
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.12.3-6

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

And here is a gdb session using CFLAGS="-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g":
Breakpoint 1, check_working_dir () at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:99
99 (void) __builtin___memset_chk (__dest, '\0', __len, __bos0 (__dest));
(gdb) n
311 res = stat(working_dir->str, &stat_data);
(gdb) set print pretty
(gdb) info locals
res = 0
stat_data = {
  st_dev = 26,
  __pad1 = 0,
  __st_ino = 797,
  st_mode = 16877,
  st_nlink = 1,
  st_uid = 1000,
  st_gid = 1000,
  st_rdev = 0,
  __pad2 = 0,
  st_size = 0,
  st_blksize = 16384,
  st_blocks = 0,
  st_atim = {
    tv_sec = 1256353883,
    tv_nsec = 640250000
  },
  st_mtim = {
    tv_sec = 1256246783,
    tv_nsec = 952750000
  },
  st_ctim = {
    tv_sec = 1256246783,
    tv_nsec = 952750000
  },
  st_ino = 71494644084507421
}

Notice that stat_data.st_ino is clearly larger than uint32

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 23 22:45:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tagtool 0.12.3-6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: tagtool
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

[rogmorri (frontporsche)]

Similar issue with gcc. See bug #455122