On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin
<Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca> wrote:
>  Thank you Dustin.
>
>  Anyone is aware of issues with gnutar 1.16 and amanda?

This page:
  
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:What_versions_of_GNU_Tar_are_Amanda-compatible%3F
lists all of the known incompatibilities.

Looking a bit more deeply into the assertion, it is not, in fact, in
tar -- it's in glibc, in the glue code that communicates with nscd for
name resolution (including uids and gids).  Is there an update
available for glibc or nscd on your system?  Is there a problem with
nscd?  Is it possible to disable nscd?  The communication with nscd is
via shared memory, so I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is a
race condition or other programming flaw that survived several
releases of glibc before being caught -- or perhaps this is the first
time it's been seen!

Dustin

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