Re: amanda vs 2.6

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:12:10PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody, scsi folks in particular;
> I don't know if I've got a bad, miss-set link thats effecting the 
> build of amanda, or ???
> Preconditions:
> tape drive has magazine, magazine ejected and reloaded, but all tapes 
> still reside in the magazine carrier.
> Under a 2.4.22-pre10 boot, a run of amcheck will load the last loaded 
> slot of the magazine and proceed to search the magazine for the next, 
> correct tape.
> Under a 2.6.0test9 or 10 boot, it loads a tape, but then gets a signal 
> 11 and exits.  A re-run from that point, where it does have a loaded 
> tape from the first run, proceeds 100% normally in searching the 
> magazine.
> Preset the magazine again and run it with gdb, and get this only if 
> booted to a 2.6 kernel:

Please retry with:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory


-- wli