amandabackup:x:112:65534::/home/amandabackup:/usr/sbin/nologin That's what I have for amandabackup. A no-frills-nothing and no password user. Don't get why it can't be a dup of your other one. Hrm....
Looks like the rest of the build was happy enough from the parts you gave. On 5/9/19 12:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: And, I'm looking at 4 debs: amanda@coyote:~/amanda$ ls -l *.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 1298594 May 9 14:48 amanda-backup-client_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 101638 May 9 14:48 amanda-backup-client-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 2085650 May 9 14:48 amanda-backup-server_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 140310 May 9 14:48 amanda-backup-server-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb Those are a good sign too. root@coyote:amanda$ dpkg -i *.deb Selecting previously unselected package amanda-backup-client. dpkg: regarding amanda-backup-client_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb containing amanda-backup-client: amanda-backup-client conflicts with amanda-client amanda-client (version 1:3.3.9-5) is present and installed. dpkg: error processing archive amanda-backup-client_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing amanda-backup-client One old package is still installed... and conflicts, so it needs a 'dpkg -r amanda-client'. Selecting previously unselected package amanda-backup-client-dbgsym. (Reading database ... 267815 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack amanda-backup-client-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb ... Unpacking amanda-backup-client-dbgsym (3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99) ... Selecting previously unselected package amanda-backup-server. dpkg: regarding amanda-backup-server_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb containing amanda-backup-server: amanda-backup-server conflicts with amanda-client amanda-client (version 1:3.3.9-5) is present and installed. dpkg: error processing archive amanda-backup-server_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing amanda-backup-server Same problem, different attempt to install the server file instead and it refused. Selecting previously unselected package amanda-backup-server-dbgsym. Preparing to unpack amanda-backup-server-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb ... Unpacking amanda-backup-server-dbgsym (3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99) ... dpkg: error processing archive amanda-backup-server-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/06/a6d45701283ff745c5ea6b44c461817e1288a5.debug', which is also in package amanda-backup-client-dbgsym 3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99 Ahh... both the server and client packages can't be installed together and the same would go for its debug files. May want to run 'dpkg -l | grep amanda' to see what's on there and take off things that are old or that got in without cooperating yet. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amanda-backup-client-dbgsym: amanda-backup-client-dbgsym depends on amanda-backup-client (= 3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99); however: Package amanda-backup-client is not installed. dpkg: error processing package amanda-backup-client-dbgsym (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: amanda-backup-client_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb amanda-backup-server_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb amanda-backup-server-dbgsym_3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99_amd64.deb amanda-backup-client-dbgsym That seems to be the sum of it: remove the old and install the *backup-server*deb files only. The only amanda stuff was /usr/local/etc/amanda/DAILY copied from the old disk to preserve my system, and about 20 files of the old amanda install in /usr/local/lib/amanda, all dated from Jan 2017 so they aren't precious now. But all the old installs using amanda's own Makefile, simply overwrote them instead of having a litter of calves. Kittens, calves, or piglets ... package systems are more consistent and complain if they leave their room messy. Much more uptight ... but then they get the job done with less guesswork. So I nuked what I could find of the january 2017 install the at may have been copied to the new drive. Getting essentially the same message from dpkg -i *.deb WTH is wrong now? Your turn Chris. That's what it is: cleaning is good but the meta-files (a database of what's in your linux system) have conflicts in them. Clean up the old "amanda-client" (using dpkg or apt-get remove amanda-client) and you'll probably be in better shape to install the new again. A minimal client-only system is great ... but you need a server system it seems. One or the other, at least. Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett Hope this helps out.
