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cpio: I/O error on output, errno 5, I/O error

cpio: I/O error on output, errno 5, I/O error

Post by Esa Kare » Fri, 05 Nov 1993 16:10:39



We sometimes get this when doing a cpio backup.
It often comes in the middle (cpio has gone fine for a while
but then this error message appears). Any guesses
which could cause this? Bad tapes (have changed), dirty
tape drive (have been cleaned) what else? Tape drive
is exabyte 5GB and OS is Pyramid SVR4.1.
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cpio: I/O error on output, errno 5, I/O error

Post by David Brenem » Sun, 14 Nov 1993 03:23:46


: We sometimes get this when doing a cpio backup.
: It often comes in the middle (cpio has gone fine for a while
: but then this error message appears). Any guesses
: which could cause this? Bad tapes (have changed), dirty
: tape drive (have been cleaned) what else? Tape drive
: is exabyte 5GB and OS is Pyramid SVR4.1.

How old is the tape drive?  I found from past experience that
after a couple years of use (at a few hours a day) the heads
need to be replaced.

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1. tinyX gives "xinit: Unknown error (errno 0): Client error." error and dies

I am trying to set up tinyX on a system I have at home. The system is
a 386SX/16 with 8 megs of RAM, 12 megs of swap space, and around 160
megs of hard drive space. It has a generic 256K video card and a Dell
13 inch monitor. (Not much of a system, I know, but I got it for
free). When I try to start up tinyX, the X server starts up (I see the
dithered background with the X cursor), and then it dies. Below is the
output it produces on the console as it is starting and dying:

Script started on Sun Oct  1 14:31:24 1995
dogbert:/usr/X386# startx

XFree86 Version 2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Operating System: Linux
Configured drivers:
  VGA16: server for 4-bit colour VGA (Patchlevel 0):
      et4000, generic
(using VT number 9)

Xconfig: /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/ttyS0, baudrate: 1200
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
(--) VGA16: chipset:  generic
(--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
(--) VGA16: clocks:  25.50  28.32  35.50   0.00
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90MHz
(**) VGA16: Mode "640x480": mode clock =  28.322, clock used =  28.322
(**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600

waiting for X server to shut down

xinit:  Unknown error (errno 0):  Client error.
dogbert:/usr/X386#

Does anyone have any idea what is causing it to die like this?
Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Obviously it would be better if I
were running on a faster machine, but I can't afford to upgrade just
yet, so if anyone can suggest how to get this working in the meantime,
I would be most grateful.

TIA,

/Matthew

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