I have been having this problem with dump for several months now, and I was hoping for it to fix itself with newer versions, but so far it hasn't so I am posting it again. I have a backup script that uses dump to backup my filesystems. I was using it fine, until several months ago, when it stopped working. The problem is that while dumping, several dump threads (childs of a dump thread in unix_select) go into pause, and then the whole thing hangs. Here is the output of "ps axfwww": ... 2697 pts/5 S 0:00 \_ su - 2745 pts/5 S 0:01 \_ -bash 8367 pts/5 S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/backup full 8534 pts/5 S 0:10 \_ dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 8543 pts/5 S 0:05 \_ dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 8544 pts/5 S 0:33 \_ dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 8545 pts/5 S 0:33 \_ dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 8546 pts/5 S 0:33 \_ dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home ... And here is the output of "ps axl": 100 0 8534 8367 9 0 2432 1516 wait4 S pts/5 0:10 dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 040 0 8543 8534 9 0 2552 1636 unix_s S pts/5 0:05 dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 040 0 8544 8543 9 0 2448 1532 pause S pts/5 0:33 dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 040 0 8545 8543 9 0 2448 1536 pause S pts/5 0:33 dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home 040 0 8546 8543 9 0 2448 1536 pause S pts/5 0:33 dump -0 -u -z -M -s 27306 -f /backup/current/home.full. /home Is anyone else using dump and having a similar problem? I don't know what else to do to debug this. Any help? Thanks. ===== ________________________ Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
