https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407552 Summary: tar crashes with assertion in io.c:234 Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer Since upgrading to opensuse 11.0 from 10.2 backups have been sometimes failing on one system with the message: gtar: io.c:234: ber_flush2: Assertion `( (sb)->sb_opts.lbo_valid == 0x3 )' failed. sendbackup: error [dump (8236) /bin/tar got signal 6] This looks extremely similar to an Openldap problem reported (for example) at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openldap2.3/+bug/215904 http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=5525;page=1;statetype=1 /bin/tar is from tar-1.19-35.1 and is being invoked by the Amanda backup software thus: running: /bin/tar: 'gtar' '--create' '--file' '-' '--directory' '/home' '--one-file-system' '--listed-incremental' '/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/berlin_home_0.new' '--sparse' '--ignore-failed-read' '--totals' '--exclude-from' '/tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home.20080709031221.exclude' '.' /home contains 172 GB of data. I tried to reproduce the problem outside of Amanda, but so far without success. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.