syncer hemorrhages numbers on shutdown then panics

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Steve Franks wrote:

> I just did a 'new huge disk' procedure (aka dump 0aLf - | restore -
> for each label).  I have a script for automating it, and it usually
> seems to work, but not today!  Silent failures/corruptions do not make
> me comfortable, especially coming from my backup tools (yes, no errors
> seen in log).
>
> System seems to work, but it won't shutdown!  syncher spits out random
> numbers for 10 minutes or more then panics.  Should I start over?  Why
> didn't dump/restore unambiguously copy my working disk to my new one?
> I didn't see any expicit errors...
>
> Also, X won't start, complaining about inability to write something
> for the keymap into /tmp; probably part of the same problem.

Maybe missing permissions on /tmp?  In my case, when I don't bother to 
copy /tmp, create a new /tmp on the target, then forget to set 
permissions on it.

Wouldn't think that would affect sync, but when you image a system odd 
things are possible.