Re: unable to complete huge backup

Udo Rader <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > Adding -vv to the star command above I saw that it hung on one arbitrary
> > > file.
> > >
> > > Some stats:
> > > ???star 1.5a67
> > > debian etch, running on a 2.4.27-3-686-smp kernel
> > > Quantum DLT-V4 on a Adaptec AIC7892 Ultra160 SCSI Controller
> > 
> > This is an extremely old version (> 2 years). Please upgrade to the
> > recent 1.5a87 it contains a bug fix for a mutex problem with multi core systems.
>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Yes, I saw it when browsing the ftp server on berlios & I am already
> trying to compile 1.5a87, what a shame that even debian unstable
> contains the same outdated version ...
>
> However, I am not 100% sure that compilation was successful because
> during compilation I saw lines like these:
>
> ---------CUT---------
> % smake
> [...]
> smake: Couldn't make 'all'.
> 	==> MAKING "all" ON SUBCOMPONENT "SRCROOT/inc/avoffset.mk"
> 	==> MAKING DEPENDENCIES "avoffset.d"
> smake: '.y' does not exist.

You are using an extremely outdated smake.

The schily makefilesystem did change about 2 years ago and unveiled 
a bug in smake.

Jörg

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