I pushed a commit
<https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/commit/dc92d12bee9b4c307260447745ff5f0bdff090a5>
that fixes the potentially undefined $LogFd issue.
Thanks,
Craig
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:50 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users <
backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Craig Barratt wrote:
>
> > I've been reviewing the mail list over the last few months, and
> > there are still a couple of reported issues I'm trying to replicate
> > or learn more about.
>
> I'm still looking at the issue I had with BackupPC a couple of months
> ago (Re: BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.) and I think
> it might have been a kernel problem. At least after I upgraded the
> kernel - and that's the only change that I made - the problem seemed
> to go away. Calls to select() in rsync_bpc were timing out. Here's
> an example strace output:
>
> select(4, [3], [], NULL, {tv_sec=5, tv_usec=41543}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(4, [3], [], NULL, {tv_sec=60, tv_usec=0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> [previous line repeated many times]
> select(4, [3], [], NULL, {tv_sec=60, tv_usec=0} <detached ...>
>
> Also at some stage I was getting an undefined symbol error which was
> causing backups to fail. I added the test below to fix it. I don't
> know what I did that might have triggered this, it was incidental to
> trying to find out what was causing the select() timeouts.
>
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ged@tornado:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ diff -U3 BackupPC_dump.~1~
> BackupPC_dump
> --- BackupPC_dump.~1~ 2018-08-28 11:22:01.688465718 +0100
> +++ BackupPC_dump 2018-09-21 18:14:29.376719313 +0100
> @@ -2189,7 +2189,7 @@
> }
> } else {
> foreach my $m ( @$msg ) {
> - print($LogFd $m);
> + print($LogFd $m) if( defined $LogFd && defined $m );
> }
> }
> }
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> HTH
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
>
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