On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:03, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >I have found what I believe is a bug in amrestore, as it is used for >an amverify run. > >Last night I set everything up for generating what should be a >pristine vtape. When I awoke, amrestore was hung on the last file > of the archive, and / was full. > >I found many gigabytes of files from all the aborted runs of > amverify that had failed previously still sitting in /tmp/amanda. > Cleaning that out brought my 30GB / partition back to the 9% used > position it normally has maintained for quite a while. > >Then I fired upo a fresh run of "amverify Daily 1 1" since that was >the vtape written last night. This was about 11 AM. Its still >going, the shell says it has looked at the last file written this >morning: >Checked coyote._usr_man.20041117.1 > >There is an "info" file in the parent Dailys directory, just a few >bytes long saying "position 53", that is being touched/updated at >minute or less intervals. That "data" directory pointers contents > do NOT have a 53rd file, the 52nd file group is: > >-rw------- 1 amanda disk 10 Nov 17 03:02 00052-TAPEEND >-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 Nov 17 03:02 00052.TAPEEND > >So obviously amrestore has gone off to lala land for an extended >vacation, not even seeing the disk full error in its quest to fill >up /tmp to the bursting point. Its at 35% filled and climbing so > I'm doing a ctl-c on the shell that started it. > >Humm, THIS time, a ctl-c not only gave me the Aborted message, and a >slight pause, it also did a super good job of cleaning up after >itself, / is now reported to be only 6% filled! > >I'm now building the 20041116 snapshot of 2.4.5b1. If still troubled >I'll back up a snapshot at a time till it works again and report >back.
I didn't test the 1116 snapshot after reading the ChangeLog, but re-installed the 2.4.5b1-20041110 snapshot, and the amrestore problem is gone. This goes to prove the when you run bleeding edge stuff marked as beta, you are going to bleed occasionally. Jean-Louis has been notified. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
