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Regarding this backtrace: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00017.html FWIW, my backup script was failing, so I looked into this today: From around line 550 of dd.c: fprintf (stderr, ngettext ("1 byte (1 B) copied", "%"PRIuMAX" bytes (%s) copied", MIN (w_bytes, ULONG_MAX)), w_bytes, human_readable (w_bytes, hbuf, human_opts, 1, 1)); The problem is that, if the locale matching $LANG has been built (for me that's en_GB.UTF-8), then ngettext appears to return something of the form: %<PRIuMAX> bytes (%s) copied (To be honest, although I see what's causing the crash, I'm not sure why the string looks exactly like that) This string is then passed as the format to fprintf - where %<PRIuMAX> should be something like %llu. I'm working around it by using "unset LANG" before the backup script is run. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
