Date: 21 Feb 2006 14:12:42 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar segmentation fault Message-ID: <444q2splud.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200602210724.39754.ben@spooty.net> References: <200602202339.44245.ben@spooty.net> <200602210724.39754.ben@spooty.net>
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Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> writes: > Sorry. left off some information that might come in handy! > > me$ uname -srm > FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 > me$ pkg_info | grep tar > gtar-1.15.1_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver > startup-notification-0.8_1 Library that supports startup notification spec > from freede You're obviously not *using* gnu tar, because you would be getting errors on the -l option if you were. > me$ > > Thanks, > Ben > > > tar -cLvy -f /usr/home/me/backup/backup.tar.bz2 /usr/home/me/backup/source/ > > > > When source/usr/home/me/public_html is empty then it runs fine. But when I > > put any links in, tar dies with a segmentation fault. > > > > Has anyone got any ideas why? No. I can't reproduce the problem here, using the system tar on RELENG_6 (couple of weeks old).
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