On Aug 22 14:46, cyril bonnard wrote: > After installing the new dll of cygwin, the behaviour of mt changed to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ strace -o trace.txt mt -f /dev/st0 status > mt: /dev/st0: Bad address > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status > drive type = Unknown type of tape device > drive status = 0 > sense key error = 0 > residue count = 0 > file number = -1 > block number = -1 > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 00 (default). > General status bits on (1010000): > ONLINE IM_REP_EN > > So i cannot provide you the trace and the stackdump with the new dll, i > send the stackdump corresponding to the PREVIOUS run and so to the old dll. > > Concerning the SEGV, it occurs only while running strace and not while > running tar/mt alone.
My bad. I had a bug in the strace related stuff inside the tape code. Could you please rerun the whole strace stuff (mt, tar) using the new Cygwin snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2 ? Maybe we still have a chance to find out what's going wrong with your tape drive. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/