Joerg Delker writes: > Norris Preyer wrote: > > Douglas Bates writes: > > > On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed > > > this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then.
> > Downgrading e2fsprogs to 1.06-3 (in stable) fixed dump for me. > > Well, it solved the symbol-problem, but brought me a new error: > > | DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat May 3 00:54:35 1997 > | DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > | DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda5 (/home) to standard output > | DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > | DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > | DUMP: estimated 145102 tape blocks. > | DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > | DUMP: master/slave protocol botched. > | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > Any Idea on that? > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | EINSTEIN Joerg Delker, DataBaseAdmin (dbguru) E3.148, Tel.: 3318 | > | ======== University of Paderborn, Computer Science | > | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Bayernweg 64, 33102 Paderborn, Germany, Tel.: +49 5251 480578 | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > I've not seen the master/slave message before and don't know what it means. The lastest packages from unstable seem to work fine now, so you might want to try upgrading and see if things improve. This is what I've been using successfully: # dpkg -l dump e2fsprogs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii dump 0.3-14 Ported 4.4BSD dump and restore utilities. ii e2fsprogs 1.10-2 The EXT2 file system utilities. # HTH, Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://140.211.64.20/npreyer.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
