On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:10:41 CST, Bdale Garbee writes:
>I'm not sure what to say.  Since dump works fine on other machines, it's
>very tempting to write this off as a problem with your kernel(s). 

i'd like to do that, too - but the configs are both garden variety, 
and i'm not sure /which/ config setting can possibly trigger a clone() 
problem. the fact that lenny's dump is happy is also a bit puzzling...

>that isn't satisfying.  Can you try a stock Debian kernel to see if
>somehow your local kernel build really is the cause of the problem?

i will, but it'll take a few days until i can do so - both boxes are
production systems and i can't reboot them very often.

>Alternatively, have you tried rebuilding dump from my source package to
>see if the problem might somehow be related to the tool chain versions
>that were used to build the binary package on the Debian autobuilder?

sure, i'll do that too.

regards
az


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