>Number:         5223
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /sbin/dump is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 28 04:35:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Scheler
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/
>Release:        970325
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lyssa 1.3E NetBSD 1.3E (LYSSA) #1: Fri Mar 27 23:49:09 MET 1998 tron@lyssa:/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LYSSA i386


>Description:
When I tried to do the weekly backup today the "dump" of my root partition
stopped after a short time with "SIGSEGV: ABORTING!" message. After I copied
"/sbin/dump" from an 1.3 system everything worked fine again.

>How-To-Repeat:
tron@lyssa:~#dump u0f /dev/null /
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Mar 28 13:15:00 1998
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/null
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 14101 tape blocks on 0.36 tape(s).
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Mar 28 13:15:00 1998
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: 14136 tape blocks on 1 volume
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sat Mar 28 13:15:09 1998
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:09
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1570 KB/s
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Mar 28 13:15:00 1998
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Sat Mar 28 13:15:09 1998
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 1570 KB/s
  DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
  DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
  DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
  DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
Segmentation fault
  DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!

>Fix:
I don't know.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: