Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Jan Johansson wrote: However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it without evident errors). Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems particularly relevant. I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this error. Any ideas?

Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2006, Jan Johansson wrote: > > >However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it > >without evident errors). > > > >Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems > >particularly relevant. > > > >I don't much like relying on files that have been

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
"tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly > > but ends with the message "Error exit delayed from previous errors". > > Capture stderr to a file (tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac 2>/logfile.txt) and > check through that. Somewhere there'll be an err

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Campbell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home > partition. > > If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly > but

RE: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Jan Johansson
>However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it >without evident errors). > >Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems >particularly relevant. > >I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this >error. Any ideas? Can I ignore

Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home partition. If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly but ends with the message "Error exit delayed from previous errors". However, the resultant home.tar file appears t