-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Steve Coleman: > I seem to have an intermittent problem when my backup scripts are running > late at night. > > My qubesd is apparently being shutdown (sent a sigterm signal) by systemd > during my long running backup sessions which then causes an eof pipe close > exception and qvm-backup then receives a socket exception and immediately > receives a second exception while still handling the first exception, thus > the qvm-backup process gets forcibly terminated mid stream. Just prior to > the qubesd shutdown I can clearly see that systemd had also > shutdown/restarted the qubes memory manager (qubes-qmemman) too. > > Q: What kind of background maintenance processing would actually require > qubesd or the memory manager to be restarted?
It's crond running logrotate. Fixed in R4.1 but not yet in R4.0: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5004 > Q: Could this processing be put on hold during backups? I always sandwich backup runs between 'systemctl stop crond' and 'systemctl start crond'. Rusty -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEEhLWbz8YrEp/hsG0ERp149HqvKt8FAmFkfVZfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDg0 QjU5QkNGQzYyQjEyOUZFMUIwNkQwNDQ2OUQ3OEY0N0FBRjJBREYACgkQRp149Hqv Kt/dHQ/+LXkv+7GT64IgMXpwQjKMuDMswRPsEvXpGihJYohSioeGm6HvUNQ1uh99 zwih5PqT1OnJrIfgzRvqLPfTbTpO3YrkQZi32TY848M14rg1A5NtTHIzOthJP2+x puZy7hMcFvZR4awv3g/4WVLRsMrUVuQ5x3n/xzId5MAycWrsQtt8bRH+kc3VHgMn Jul0TPzD1jnmN36Ngpgr5UGe4LrNfR4IcRaG5mzoI/4tIA4mtkcmm1AwqBnR3KrQ 0Gclbk/F5ud/Nj4EwIQDFWnrBa70Hru7HZ+wj7V7shJD2fMuQVsBcys8EVJjpGQp qFzy6AfvdIHJ1BmtoJM+v8cqo2AU+kVdRx0n2cTXCkHM5eN1nCpc6EO81HoB6ypE 8773aw8l/Y5fCowT0p/y4c8jTUd3/YiNFpJSPiRfLJDAk4PunnynM9IPVY+GnJUX 6HB8tXDn6vx5Gq90f0UjNkcWonJ/bt5GMYGpWBtHGQyQ0dh+mxhmwnT5hYnfNMW+ +pAcBB4fRclebEroW1RcLqe7FVZ1dldNqZQIL6WlQgU8/I06/JNNZkhjmlpdBDX5 FwNGFw7b2ss+4A+LdC6Q4IJ1S2LyOeIQtCCX3UIffhcvOEMmJSxkHBb65e1kGAxe 5Lsfcjmq6rK1jCYMC5or177Mo9u+PPxWxvr5p4zocBu7VyUUCdM= =zaUv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/YWR9VrcVsYS/1FC8%40mutt.