restore: "no memory to extend symbol table" abort

Igor Pokrovsky ip at doom.homeunix.org
Wed Aug 18 12:36:36 PDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:52:50AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> I have problems dump|restoring to a new disk.
> 
> Procedure:
> 
> shutdown now
> /sbin/fdisk -Iv ad1
> /sbin/disklabel -r ad1s1
> /sbin/disklabel -re ad1s1
> /sbin/newfs /dev/ad1s1e
> /sbin/swapon -a # 1GB ad0s1b
> /sbin/mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
> cd /mnt
> /sbin/dump -0af- /usr | restore -xf-
> <-- restore reports insufficient memory, asks for permission to abort
>     and dump core (backtrace below)

I expirienced something like this (I don't remember exactly)
when I had not enough space in /tmp.

-ip

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