Hello I am using xrdcp from release 20050623-0016 and I copy a file from an xrootd server to a local disk. xrdcp first contacts a redirector and then gets redirected to the data server. I tried the following two commands > xrdcp -DIDebugLevel 2 root://bbr-rdr03////store/cfg/2005/06/CfgDB-20050620T211907.root t.root > xrdcp -DIDebugLevel 2 root://bbr-rdr-a////store/cfg/2005/06/CfgDB-20050620T211907.root t.root The only difference is that in the first case (bbr-rdr03) the redirector name is used where as in the second case an alias is used that points to the two redirectors (bbr-rdr03,bbr-rdr04) of the xrootd cluster. The first command works fine but the second creates a core file: > xrdcp -DIDebugLevel 2 root://bbr-rdr-a////store/cfg/2005/06/CfgDB-20050620T211907.root t.root ..... 050627 10:48:23 27025 Xrd: SocketReaderThread: Reader Thread starting. 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: DoLogin: Logging into the server [kan010.slac.stanford.edu:1094]. pid=27025 uid=wilko 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: SendGenCommand: Sending command XrdClientConn::DoLogin 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: ReadPartialAnswer: Reading a XrdClientMessage from the server [kan010.slac.stanford.edu:1094]... 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: SendGenCommand: Got (and maybe recovered) an error from kan010.slac.stanford.edu:1094 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: SendGenCommand: Sending command Open 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: ReadPartialAnswer: Reading a XrdClientMessage from the server [kan010.slac.stanford.edu:1094]... 050627 10:48:23 001 Xrd: Create: File opened succesfully. Segmentation fault (core dumped) With gdb the core file shows: #0 0x00237057 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x00237057 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x00236048 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x0808319c in ~XrdClientString (this=0x89e80b8) at XrdClientString.cc:17 #3 0x08059efe in ~XrdClientUrlInfo (this=0x89e80b8) at XrdClientConn.hh:89 #4 0x0807a716 in ~XrdClientUrlSet (this=0xbfff9170) at XrdClientUrlSet.cc:208 #5 0x0805cf75 in XrdClient::Open(unsigned short, unsigned short) (this=0x89e3210, mode=0, options=64) at XrdClient.cc:237 #6 0x08081f95 in XrdCpWorkLst::SetSrc(XrdClient**, XrdClientString, XrdClientString, bool) (this=0x89e2598, srccli=0x809a760, url= {data = 0x89e3000 "root://bbr-rdr-a////store/cfg/2005/06/CfgDB-20050620T211907.root", size = 64, capacity = 256}, urlopaquedata= {data = 0x89e2ef8 "", size = 0, capacity = 256}, do_recurse=false) at XrdCpWorkLst.cc:53 #7 0x080592cd in main (argc=5, argv=0xbfff9534) at Xrdcp.cc:802 The core file and the output of xrdcp are available in: /nfs/objyserv01/objy/databases/wilko/xrootd/problems/xrdcpDebug2_20050623-0016/ Using different debug levels I found that the transfer works for level 0 and 1 but fails for 2,3 and if no level is specified on the command line. Cheers, Wilko