[Bug 1278940] Re: "tail -f" no longer updates in 14.04

[Rolf Leggewie]

Thank you, hggdh2, for having a look.

There isn't so much to say in terms of details.  I ran the live CD and
tail'd syslog.  When I saw no updates I stopped the tail and restarted
it (several times).  Sure enough, there were new lines (not least
because I had replugged USB devices) which were shown now.  But again,
no updates after that.

Maybe this only affects the live CD. I don't know.

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Title:
  "tail -f" no longer updates in 14.04

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  "tail -f /var/log/syslog" does not follow updates to the file.  It
  does a tail of the file and then is never updated.

  That is a pretty serious regression and one that I am VERY surprised
  to find in a Ubuntu LTS release so late in the cycle.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-6.23-generic 3.13.0
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-6-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Feb 11 15:46:38 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/tail
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140202)
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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