Thank you, Bill.
It appears that bacula-sd (via systemd) is no longer content with the
permissions on its config file '/opt/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf' which
has never changed.
The permissions were:
-rw-rw----. 1 root disk 9894 Nov 5 2023 bacula-sd.conf
and that worked fine for years, but now it doesn't since the packages
upgrade. I changed the group to 'bacuala' and now the service starts
and runs.
Does that seem like an acceptable work-around to you?
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On 11/20/2024 12:16 PM, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
On 11/20/24 9:59 AM, D. wrote:
I upgraded from 13.0.4 to 15.0.2 on two Oracle Linux 8.10 servers. In
both cases, the bacula-sd.service daemon won't start after the upgrade.
The DIR and FD daemons start just fine. The DIR seems to interact with
the upgraded database just fine.
The lack of logging has me stumped as to how I should further
troubleshoot this problem.
Any thoughts?
I thought about compiling it myself and seeing if my compiled SD starts,
but I don't have the knowledge to compile myself. Hmph...
Hello,
You can star the SD in foreground mode with debug enabled. The reason
for the failure to start will usually be pretty clear - usually a
permissions issue cause by the service being started manually as the
root user at some point.
# sudo -u bacula /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-sd -f -d100
Make sure to start the SD using sudo like this - and not starting as
root user using -u and -g command line options - so that there is no chan
ce of the daemon starting as root, being able to read files that the
bacula user may not have access to, and then dropping privileges to
become the bacula user. Basic permission issues can be missed this way. :)
Typically, the *.pid file might be owned `root:root` which will prevent
systemd, or the sudo command above from allowing the SD to start - and
systemd does not tell you why it didn't start, but the above command
will reveal the issue.
Hope this helps,
Bill
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