Your message dated Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:11:51 -0600 (MDT)
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and subject line not a problem in tar
has caused the Debian Bug report #540335,
regarding tar: locks machine attempting to write to tape drive
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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
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--- Begin Message ---
As per email exchange with submitter, this appears to be a kernel/driver
problem and not a problem in tar.
Bdale
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