Bug 1015 - dump is broken on sparc
Summary: dump is broken on sparc
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: dump
Version: 5.2
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-02-01 17:55 UTC by wrichards
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-02-02 14:40:55 UTC
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Description wrichards 1999-02-01 17:55:45 UTC 
Running RedHat 5.2 on SPARCStation10 with two 2GB drives.
When attempting to run dump, bread errors overflow the
screen and the dump fails.

Listed below is a snippet of a dump error listing.
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [block
-1990328320]: count=1024, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails!
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [sector
-1990328320]: count=512, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails!
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [sector
-1990328319]: count=512, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek fails
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [block
-1956773888]: count=1024, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails!
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [sector
-1956773888]: count=512, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails!
  DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [sector
-1956773887]: count=512, got=0
  DUMP: bread: lseek fails

After 32 errors, of course, it asks if you want to continue
and if answered 'yes' generates a new list of errors.  If
running in the background, it just fails with an exitcode
'3'.

Wayne Richards
Technical Support Analyst, Sr.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Corporate Research
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-02 14:40:59 UTC 
Derek Brashear's patch to fix this problem has been applied in
dump-0.3-17,
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