On Monday 14 December 2009 09:27:40 Bruno Friedmann wrote: > On 12/09/2009 12:11 AM, Janusz Syrytczyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've upgraded to 3.0.3 from 3.0.2 a while ago and I'm facing serious > > problems with bacula-dir stability. > > > > Just after its start, Director is able to perform any request I have > > (perform a backup, restore, reload etc.). But once I've got the task > > done, Director stops listening me - the second job is not starting when > > requested. Then bconsole stops, I have to exit ctrl+c, but reissuing > > bconsle and here typing status dir gives that the backup is running. > > > > The problem is that the backup is not running. Director keeps it almost > > fully silent. When I try to reload through bconsole, I'm experiencing > > Director going like zombie - cannot connect. Debugging gives only this: > > > > atom-dir: bnet.c:670-0 who=client host=192.168.1.150 port=36131 > > > > What's interesting, when I leave the Director alone it works OK, it > > schedules backups and performs them. I had previously suspected that > > something is wrong with scheduler as on before this troubleshooting I > > couldn't even get the Director scheduling, but since few days it goes > > right. > > > > This is the same issue as the guy here, but he hasn't found a clue: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg38279.h > >tml > > > > I've just moved backups and database, recompiled Bacula, recreated the > > database and started backups but the same history goes. What this could > > be, anyone? > > Don't know if it's your case. > > We have same trouble here with dir hanging after having run the first job. > I've restart it with -d100 just to check what's happen. > In the meantime, on the bacula server (which has been upgraded from > opensuse 11.1 to 11.2 ) I have found that postfix is throttling ... ( > missing relay.db file in /etc/postfix : issue a postmap relay and restart > postfix ) After that all emails are working. > > As inside my dir-config message bsmtp are connected to the internal > postfix, bsmtp was hanging ! And perharps bacula-dir too. > > I've now running three scheduled jobs, and bacula-dir have done it's jobs. > > What I suspect is : there's no bsmtp timeout ( if it could not connect it > return, but if it connect and nothing goes right in postfix (the > throttling case) it wait indefinitely and also the director .... > > I will leave this configuration running 2 to 3 days just to be sure it was > that. > > In the meantime, if you can check on your side, if you get some trouble > with bstmp to infirm or confirm. > True, I've verified this too.
bsmtp goes zombie and bacula-dir waits on it. Solution is to usea another app for sending email or drop email notifications at all. I wonder if its not a candidate to bug report? Thanks, JS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
