ANSWER: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Yoder
Kurt Yoder said: > What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've tried > twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message both > times. It was a hardware problem. Something about the motherboard and Linux didn't get along. Switching to

Re: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: > So what would be > wrong with the dump image? Should I try manually uncompressing that > image and seeing what's on it? I doubt you'd learn anything. As far as taper is concerned, I believe the image is just an opaque stream of bytes.

Re: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Yoder
Paul Bijnens said: > Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> My amdump log file is quite long, so here's the part that seems >> most >> relevant: > > ... > > It seems it is the taper writer that is somehow crashing, without > telling anybody. Do you find a core file in the amanda home dir > or in /tmp/amanda ?

Re: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Yoder
Paul Bijnens said: > Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've >> tried >> twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message >> both >> times. > > Any other messages in the file &quo

FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe

2003-09-11 Thread Kurt Yoder
What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've tried twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message both times. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator