On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:21:14PM +0100, Nick Pierpoint wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I've been using Amanda for a couple of months and it has all been
> working beautifully, but in the last few days I've been seeing some
> errors connected with gtar:
> 

> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:1: Invalid time
> stamp
> ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:2: Invalid inode
> number
> | gtar: ./nick/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-socket-path-M7CcHJ: socket

> rollins      /home       1 FAILED
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.5p1)

I have been seeing the same thing for about two weeks.

I'm running Fedora Core 5, and the same version of Amanda. Last night
my computer crashed, so I ran fsck on everything. There were numerous
errors on my / file system, where /var/lib/amanda resides. If those
were real errors I would think that fsck would have caught them.

I note in my yum.log:

Oct 07 08:58:06 Updated: tar.i386 2:1.15.1-15.FC5

I started seeing those error messages after October 7.

Possibly this is a bug in the latest FC5 tar? I'll check bugzilla
later today.

Things I have not yet tried: rolling back to the previous version of
tar; deleting the offending files.

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