Hello, 16.07.2007 13:46,, Kern Sibbald wrote:: > On Monday 16 July 2007 13:17, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hello, ... >>> Yes, either a kernel problem or a hardware problem seem the most likely. > We >>> cannot exclude a Bacula bug, but the finger is pointing to the > CPU/hardware. >> Well, this is problematic... Alfredo gave good reasons to assume that >> it's not purely hardware/OS related. Basically, the problem occurs >> when he runs certain jobs. > > I didn't see that, but then I am no longer receive any email from the > bacula-users list.
Yes. I know, but it's hard moderating a discussion across two separate mailing list :-) >> I guess that the interworking of DIR, SD, catalog database, and OS >> might trigger some sort of resource exhaustion, but debugging this is >> beyond my abilities :-) > > Or as I mentioned, it could be that Bacula is self destructing ... > >>> I recommend shutting down your machine, rebooting it, running memtest, and > if >>> all is OK, restarting Bacula and see what happens. >> Fortunately, that's not my machine :-) >> >> Unfortunately, my backup server is dying, but I know and understand >> that problem :-( > > If you and he *really* think it is a Bacula bug, I'd *strongly* recommend > that > he upgrade to the latest 2.1.26 beta version. Ok... Alfredo, I suggest you try this. Upgrade and see what happens. If the problem occurs again after two weeks, use the (then-generated) trace file and strace output to file a bug report. Also, I recommend to closely watch the mailing list for possible updates of the code... it would not be uncommon that some interesting bugs are found shortly after the final beta or the release version is published. > IMO (aside from the Win32 > testing problem -- the old FD daemons do not need to be upgraded) it is ready > for production use, and I've knocked off 3 or 4 memory overrun problems -- > particularly one in PostgreSQL. So before declaring it a bug, it is > important to reproduce it on 2.1.26 or later. Good... I send this to the users list, too, so Alfredo can notice it :-) Arno PS: And in case the select() fails again like this, make sure you subscribe to the developers list, too - this bug might be one needing some communication between the developers and the one with the reproducible problem. -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
