Bug#680139: dar: Parse error

July 03rd, 2012 - 06:00 pm ET by root | Report spam
Package: dar
Version: 2.3.8-3+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

For some reason, dar stopped working. This is the command and the
response that I get:
dar -m 1024 -y -s 4480M -D -R -c /backup/daily/2012-07-03_diff
Parse error on command line (or included files): Unknown argument : /backup/daily/2012-07-03_diff
Other than the regular upgrades, and a change of IP address, nothing
has been done with the computer, and we have used dar for several years.

Debian Release: 5.0.9
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dar depends on:
ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1+lenny1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdar64-4 2.3.8-3+b1 Disk ARchive: Shared library
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny13 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

dar recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dar suggests:
pn dar-docs <none> (no description available)
pn par2 <none> (no description available)




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#1 Brian May
July 03rd, 2012 - 07:30 pm ET | Report spam
On 4 July 2012 07:36, root wrote:
For some reason, dar stopped working. This is the command and the
response that I get:
dar -m 1024 -y -s 4480M -D -R -c /backup/daily/2012-07-03_diff
Parse error on command line (or included files): Unknown argument : /backup/daily/2012-07-03_diff
Other than the regular upgrades, and a change of IP address, nothing
has been done with the computer, and we have used dar for several years.



I believe the -R option required a parameter, and you haven't supplied
it a parameter. The man page says "-R, --fs-root <path>"

The current version says for the current command line "Parse error:
Missing -c -x -d -t -l -C -+ option, see `dar -h' for help" because it
takes -c to be the parameter for -R.

Also note that the Lenny version of Debian is no longer supported, and
as such there haven't been any updates to the version of dar in years.
Brian May



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