On 01/26/10 15:16, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi all, > > 25.01.2010 17:16, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 25 January 2010 16:45:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> One of my ten differential backups last night failed with an error I've >>> never seen before: >>> > ... >>> 25-Jan 03:43 babylon4-dir JobId 978: Fatal error: sql_create.c:825 Fill >>> File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, >>> FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, >>> Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON >>> (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): >>> ERR=Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction > ... >> This is a Windows client that is generating the error messages. > > I disagree... looks definitely like the DIR producing the error during > a database transaction.
That was my thought too. I was wondering if something different happens on DB commits with VSS clients. > This looks quite like something we've seen recently - I assume you're > using MySQLs InnoDB database engine? Correct. > In that case, you may be able to tweak the settings, but what might > really help *may* be an upgrade of MySQL to a more recent and stable > version. > > Actually, I don't know the cause for the error, but I'm pretty sure > that - where I observed this - switching to a different MySQL version > fixed this. I can check and see if there's a newer Solaris 10 MySQL package. (I'm trying to stay as much as possible with original Sun packages on that machine.) If it's a known potential issue with a known fix, then that's fine. I reported it in case it was a hitherto unseen problem. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel