We have confirmed a defect in the TSM Linux client that can cause this
crash, and will open an APAR.
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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> Am Thursday 25 March 2010 schrieben Sie:
>
> > At the moment, I'm just curious at the moment if anybody else has seen
this
> > issue:
> >
> > TSM 6.2.0.0 Linux client will crash if /etc/issue is larger than a 127
byte
> > text file. 127 bytes or less of text, the client works fine. 128
bytes
> > or more, and it segfaults. >127 bytes of random data copied from
> > /dev/urandom or nulls from /dev/zero, and the client runs fine. This
has
> > been replicated on both 32bit and 64bit Linux systems. The Mac OS X
> > client on 10.5.7 worked fine. The 32bit client was an upgrade from
5.5,
> > I'm not sure if the 64bit was or not, but I can find out, OS X was a
new
> > install. Tried against different server versions, though that doesn't
> > seem to matter. Various bits below.
> >
> > I didn't see any mention of it searching the list archives, but I also
> > didn't spend a lot of time searching. The IBM known issues page didn't
> > seem to list this.
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