On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:17:16PM -0500, Drew Derbyshire enlightened us: > I've run amanda for years on various FreeBSD machines. I THINK in days > of old I also backed up at least one Redhat 8 client system, but the > system retired a while back so I have no data and little memory. > > I'm now trying to add a Fedora 4 client, with poor results. amcheck > runs fine, but the infamous estimate failed keeps happening when I > actually try to run. It's not a timeout (total execution is only 30 > seconds), and sendsize seems to be actively failing. I'm not sure what > to make of it. In particular: > > * "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda1" works fine as the amanda > user run from the command line. > * GNU dump output hasn't changed much in years > * /etc/dumpdates is world readable and group writable. > > Suggestions? > > sendsize: debug 1 pid 22313 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Feb 20 13:17:20 > 2006 > sendsize: version 2.4.5 > sendsize[22315]: time 0.012: calculating for amname '/dev/sda1', dirname > '/boot', spindle 1 > sendsize[22315]: time 0.012: getting size via dump for /dev/sda1 level 0 > sendsize[22315]: time 0.015: calculating for device '/dev/sda1' with 'ext3' > sendsize[22315]: time 0.016: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda1" > sendsize[22315]: time 0.029: running /usr/lib/amanda/killpgrp > sendsize[22313]: time 0.037: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running > sendsize[22315]: time 0.045: DUMP: cannot read /etc/dumpdates: Permission > denied > sendsize[22315]: time 0.047: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > sendsize[22315]: time 0.049: ..... > sendsize[22315]: estimate time for /dev/sda1 level 0: 0.032 > sendsize[22315]: no size line match in /sbin/dump output for "/dev/sda1" > sendsize[22315]: ..... > sendsize[22315]: estimate size for /dev/sda1 level 0: -1 KB > sendsize[22315]: time 0.049: asking killpgrp to terminate > sendsize[22315]: time 1.053: done with amname '/dev/sda1', dirname '/boot', > spindle 1 > sendsize[22313]: time 1.054: child 22315 terminated normally > sendsize[22318]: time 1.055: calculating for amname '/dev/sda5', dirname > '/', spindle 1 > sendsize[22318]: time 1.055: getting size via dump for /dev/sda5 level 0 > sendsize[22318]: time 1.057: calculating for device '/dev/sda5' with 'ext3' > sendsize[22318]: time 1.057: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda5" > sendsize[22318]: time 1.065: running /usr/lib/amanda/killpgrp > sendsize[22313]: time 1.073: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running > sendsize[22318]: time 1.087: DUMP: cannot read /etc/dumpdates: Permission > denied
If I had to guess, I'd say you've got SELinux enabled and it's interfering. Anything in /var/log/messages to tell if that's the case? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263