Hello, After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have finally found a work around and at the same time, proven that it is a SuSE problem.
Last night, I loaded the Fedora FC4 kernel from my server onto my SuSE machine, and rebooted, not quite expecting it to boot up. Well, it did and with the exception of AppArmor, which is SuSE specific, and mtx, which seems to have been modified by SuSE, everything works -- i.e. a SuSE 10.1 system with a Fedora kernel. (Note, even though I have switched from Fedora to SuSE because of too many bugs on the Fedora releases, I have never experienced a Fedora kernel bug -- probably due to the presense of Alan Cox!). Results of Bacula tests: with the *identical* binaries, everything works fine. Running my tape regression script (minus the regressions needing mtx), no crash. Conclusion: SuSE has seriously broken their SCSI driver. What you can do: I don't ususally ask Bacula users to do something, but this is one time when you can potentially be a big help to the project, and this is especially important for SuSE users (in my opinion): please go to the following link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208782 and if you don't have an account with their buzilla, please create one, then add your name to the CC list for this bug, and cast a vote for this bug (Arno gave me the idea). If we can get a good number of people interested in this bug, I think Novell will stand up and take notice, and possibly improve its kernel support. My purpose is in a polite way to show them that this bug is important so that they put the appropriate resources on it. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
