The domain name on the server hadn't been configured to match the domain name in the client. This resulted in corrupted ownership (owner and group) for the destination files, and the 'chown_if_root' routine failed.
A trace of where pdumpfs was failing can be obtained by specifying '--backtrace' as a command line option, but that parameter is undocumented. I think it needs to be not only documented in both the man page and the help, but it should actually be the default on any error that causes pdumpfs to stop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org