On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:42:33PM +0000, Robert Paris wrote:
> OK I'm getting the latest unstable snapshot. With ftape 4.02 and 4.03-pre2, I
> was having various strange difficulties with it. Under 4.02, I set an backup
> going, and it started spewing large amounts of data into the messages log
> (excerpts of what I was backing up) and after I Ctrl+Ced it, I was getting
> paging errors, segmentation errors, etc, with all programs. I couldn't run
> 'shutdown' or 'halt' so I had to turn off. e2fcsk helpfully removed system
> utilities, including itself and one or two others. =)
>
Wow - are you sure ftape is your only problem? Kernel 2.2.2 is not the best one,
I would upgrade at least to 2.2.3 (because I got some strange problems while
trying to upgrade...); don't forget "make clean"; I got the impression that
sometimes "make clean" is not enough: I removed the ftape directory as a
whole and unpacked .tar.gz again - this helped indeed.
> Under 4.03-pre2, the backup proceeded OK, but afterwards I was unable to run
> any programs or anything, so I had to reset again, but lost no files this
> time.
>
> Any ideas?
No - but perhaps more information is necessary. What kind of tape drive
do you use? What about the errors in /var/log/messages? If your system hangs
the last messages are perhaps interesting...
bye, juergen.
>
> Rob
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