Help! I finally upgraded our primary fileserver from OSF V1.3b to V3.0.
(Cheers from the crowd :v) On the downside, dump stopped working. I've
successfully dumped a certain (ufs) filesystem at level 0, but when I go
back and try to do an incremental dump, dump dumps core. (No, I'm not trying
to do a Dr. Seuss. :v)
dump: Dumping from host fridge
dump: Date of this level 1 dump: Mon Jan 30 13:55:10 1995 PST
dump: Date of last level 0 dump: Tue Jan 24 10:14:02 1995 PST
dump: Dumping /dev/rrz12c (/fridge5) to /dev/nrmt0a
dump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
dump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
dump: SIGSEGV received -- ABORTING!
sh: 21094 Abort - core dumped
(result="error 34304")
I captured a note off this list (see below) that describes SIGSEGV problems
with dump, and which patch I need. (I'd be happy using the "backslash"
remedy, but I even tried *commenting out* NFS lines from my fstab, and still
the same result.)
I've spent the better part of a week trying to get ahold of
these patches, but I've sort of given up. DEC wants a $200 software
service call per patch or a software service agreement; I can afford
neither. Should I file a Software Performance Report for something DEC
already has fixed, but I can't get the patches to (and how would I do that)?
More frighteningly still, another person had gotten the patches from DEC,
so we compared checksums (and even cmp'd the binaries), and found
our /usr/sbin/dumps identical.
So now, thinking that the patches are erroneous (since the "patched" version
is identical to the original), I have no idea where to go. And I can't take
daily backups anymore. I've even tried using the dump binary from my 1.3b
machine.
Can someone tell me what to fix? Or how to get ahold of said patches?
Thanks sincerely, and my apologies for my verbosity,
--Jon
# sum /usr/sbin/dump # on my 3.0 system
16219 72 /usr/sbin/dump
# sum /usr/sbin/dump # on my 1.3b system
30521 72 /usr/sbin/dump
Excerpt from message from Alpha-OSF-Managers:
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= Problem 2: (CLD hpaqa6710)
= *********
=
= Patch ID: OSFV30-054-3
=
= The (r)dump program was core dumping with SIGSEGV when an entry for an
= nfs filesystem in the /etc/fstab did not begin with a backslash.
= Additionally, this patch includes a correction for properly reporting
= write failures.
=
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Received on Mon Jan 30 1995 - 17:43:06 NZDT