This foray has gotten very frustrating for me. Please excuse if the following replies seem inflammatory, but it comes from an honest desire to _really_ help.
In response to Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That postgres db is being used on the network all day long. > - I use it from web apps through jdbc > - I use it from pgadmin on a windows laptop > - I use it from custom softwares on desktops > This problem arises only when I use bconsole on Bacula and the Director > is separated from the DB. > Everything works fine only if the Director works on localhost DB. > In the logs, I did not put the Director's startup traces because > they were a lot and they all went ok. Please put some effort in to formatting your emails. I'm tired of fixing your line wrapping. 72 chars is the standard. Now. I'm going to assume 1 of two things: 1) You're a super expert on both Bacula and PostgreSQL. This is evident because you can look at logs and _know_ that certain parts are not important because you _know_ that those sections show normal behaviour. You're so smart that you refuse to send those sections of the logs in spite of multiple requests for them. Obviously, there's absolutely no chance that you could be mistaken, since the system is running so smoothly. 2) There's something in the logs that you find embarrassing. If #1 is the case, then just fix the problem yourself. If #2 is the case, then I have no advice. > I really suspect this is something coming out only when I use bconsole. While this could be true, I find it unlikely and not indicated by the evidence you're providing. bconsole talks to the director and the director talks to the database. It appears as if bconsole is able to contact the director, and the errors seem to indicate a connection problem between the director and the database. The fact that this only occurs when you use the director is a silly benchmark, since the _only_ other thing you've managed to get the director to do is start. > I can't make a real test now, but because Director starts up very happy > with the DB, I'm pretty sure that it would also run the scheduled > backups happily. Those are some outlandish assumptions you're making there. If the director fails on a "status storage" then I find it difficult to imagine that it could succeed in backing anything up. > Because I cannot use bconsole, then I cannot create volumes, and > cannot verify this. Yes, you can. You could create autolabeled disk volumes in the config, create a test backup job, schedule it to run frequently and you'd find out very quickly. > Someone can explain me what happens when I use "list volumes" on > bconsole? there must be some difference in the way the DB is accessed > at startup and when I use bconsole.... No. bconsole -> director, then director -> db in the same way it does anything else. You've still yet to provide any kind of network debugging. For crying out loud, do a "tcpdump -s0 -w /some/file port 5432" during the failure and post the resultant file somewhere. And, quite frankly, the last several emails have amounted to you politely saying, "I don't agree with your advice, and therefore, won't take it." Based on this, I'm tempted to stop giving it. If you know so much about how bacula works, why are you still stuck? If you want any _real_ help, you're going to have to post some serious information somewhere. It's amazing that the open source community is generally willing to wade through such data and provide assistance for free. But I find it even more amazing that you repeated _refuse_ to take advantage of such free debugging. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
