On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > The second problem was when Bacula attempted to write the error > message to the > working directory, it did not have write permission and thus it seg > faulted. > It should not seg fault, and there is code to prevent that, so I > don't know > exactly what did happen, but I have taken note of it.
That's all I was looking for. It was reproducable for several weeks, it would likely be reproducable again. > In any case, the root > of the problem, IMO, was with the permissions at least in the > output that I > saw in your bug report. 13-Jul 17:54 backup0-dir: Error: message.c:668 fopen /var/db/bacula/ backup0-dir.backup0-dir.135133336.mail failed: ERR=Permission denied Kaboom! bacula-dir, backup0-dir got signal 11. I was confused as to why everything else works properly, and when the network card was fixed the permissions problem disappears. The directory is owned and writable only by bacula. Investigating show something odd -- some of these files are owned and writable only by root. That's confusing -- how does bacula-dir (which is invoked as user 'bacula') write out a file owned by root? -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 206 Jul 7 18:34 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135128472.mail -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 206 Jul 13 17:49 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135129240.mail -rw-r----- 1 root bacula 138 Jul 13 17:53 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135133336.mail -rw-r----- 1 root bacula 138 Jul 13 18:20 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135133464.mail -rw-r----- 1 root bacula 0 Jul 13 17:38 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135141272.mail -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 206 Jul 5 14:59 backup0-dir.backup0- dir.135168088.mail I'm guessing that somehow the file was pre-created by a root owned process, and then you tried to append or rewrite it as bacula? -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
