Package: tar Version: 1.20-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
command : tar -czf /dev/ht0 /www /home locks the machine. no activity on the tape drive. the tape drive is a travan certance. am i using the correct device? it has this listed in the messages log: kernel: [ 7.067603] ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: 232KBps, 6*54kB buffer, 400ms tDSC -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii ncompress 4.2.4.2-1 Original Lempel-Ziv compress/uncom -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org