We have confirmed a defect in the TSM Linux client that can cause this crash, and will open an APAR.
Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. > Am Thursday 25 March 2010 schrieben Sie: > > > At the moment, I'm just curious at the moment if anybody else has seen this > > issue: > > > > TSM 6.2.0.0 Linux client will crash if /etc/issue is larger than a 127 byte > > text file. 127 bytes or less of text, the client works fine. 128 bytes > > or more, and it segfaults. >127 bytes of random data copied from > > /dev/urandom or nulls from /dev/zero, and the client runs fine. This has > > been replicated on both 32bit and 64bit Linux systems. The Mac OS X > > client on 10.5.7 worked fine. The 32bit client was an upgrade from 5.5, > > I'm not sure if the 64bit was or not, but I can find out, OS X was a new > > install. Tried against different server versions, though that doesn't > > seem to matter. Various bits below. > > > > I didn't see any mention of it searching the list archives, but I also > > didn't spend a lot of time searching. The IBM known issues page didn't > > seem to list this.