Thank you for the tips. Reply inline.

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:33 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-04-04 10:48, David Leangen wrote:
> > sendsize: debug 1 pid 18503 ruid 503 euid 503: start at Tue Apr  4
> > sendsize[18505]: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null
> > --directory /usr/local/repo --one-file-system --list
> > ed-incremental 
> > /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/shinsaibashi_usr_local_repo_0.new 
> > --sparse --ignore-failed-read --tota
> > ls .
> 
> That was the command that Amanda executed.

> What happens if you run that command by hand, as root?

[root@shinsaibashi amanda]# /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null
--directory /usr/local/repo  --one-file-system
--listed-incremental /dev/null --sparse  --ignore-failed-read --totals .
/bin/gtar: ./xxx/db/__db.003: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file
descriptor
/bin/gtar: ./xxx/db/__db.004: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file
descriptor
/bin/gtar: ./xxx/db/__db.001: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file
descriptor

Here is an ls of files that are listed in this problem (only the
__db.00xx files):

total 1508
drwxrws---  2 subversion subversion   4096 Feb  6 20:19 .
drwxrwx---  7 subversion subversion   4096 Feb  6 20:20 ..
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 changes
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 copies
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion  16384 Feb  6 20:19 __db.001
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion 278528 Feb  6 20:19 __db.002
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion 327680 Feb  6 20:19 __db.003
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion 892928 Feb  6 20:19 __db.004
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion  16384 Feb  6 20:19 __db.005
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   1738 Feb  6 20:19 DB_CONFIG
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion      4 Feb  6 20:19 fs-type
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion 592391 Mar 28 13:07 log.0000000001
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 nodes
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 representations
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 revisions
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion  32768 Mar 28 13:07 strings
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 transactions
-rw-rw----  1 subversion subversion   8192 Mar 28 13:07 uuids


> Also, older versions of gnutar had bugs in handling sparse files.
> Are you sure have a good gnutar version?  (1.15.1 is OK, as wel
> as Redhat 1.14 with backported patches e.g. "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4" rpm
> package.)

Version seems fine:

[root@shinsaibashi amanda]# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1


Thanks!