Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15
Op 15/07/2011 12:02, Bill Damage schreef: Hi Jeremy, Since this sounds exactly like the root of the problem any chance of you spelling out to this humble newbie how I'd check and fix that please? Do an ls -al of the /dev folder and look for the (n)stX entries (X being a number). Example (partial) output on RHEL6: /crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 jul 7 15:01 nst0/ As you can see this device is owned by user root and group tape. Because bacula-sd runs as user bacula, and the bacula user is by default member of only the disk group, it has no rights to use the tapedrive. To fix this you'd use vigr (or vi /etc/groups) and make sure that the bacula user is a member of the group the tape devices belong to. An example of how this was achieved on RHEL6: tape:x:33:bacula. So just add the bacula user at the end of the line for the correct group, using a comma to separate different users if needed. Regards, Jeremy ** You should really check which group owns the tape devices /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 (or (n)st1 or higher if there's more than one drive). I'll bet it is now owned by the group tape instead of the usual group disk it was in the past. If that's the case you can just run the SD as user bacula and group tape :-) Regards, Jeremy DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15
Hi Allesandro Well ain't that something? I'd have put money on it being something we did. In fact I can add to this - we have another server, which was running the same bacula on F15, which we upgraded using the preupgrade method, i.e. entirely via the web and wizards. This went perfectly. It was this process which went wrong on the second server, so we ended up doing the upgrade via a DVD. Whilst from a Fed pov it now seems ok, there is this bacula problem and pretty much that's the only difference between these systems. Its too important to mess with any longer. We're already a week behind with our backups so I'm going to use the workaround you suggested, thanks. From: Alessandro Bianchi a...@skynet.it To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: bill.dam...@yahoo.com Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 12:50:14 Subject: Re: Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15 Il 14/07/2011 13:29, bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net ha scritto: Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config, do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost definitely not a bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem ;-) What happens is if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd is running as the user bacula. If I try anything with touches the sd, say in bconsole even a status all, the display stops at the first Connecting to Storage daemon... message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from root with bacula-sd -f -v in another console all is well. There's nothing in any logs I can see. Whats gives please? Thanks. Hi I faced a very similar problem after upgrading from F14 to F15 I had the SD hanging on every operation I tracked it to a permission problem. It seems to have some sort of trouble while dropping privileges. I fixed it editing the /etc/syscongif/bacula-sd file and setting it like follows: SD_USER=root SD_GROUP=bacula I don't like having the SD running as root so before doing that I worked on permissions on the bacula SD storage area (I'm using the File storage) with no luck. Hope this points you in some useful direction. Besta regards Alessandro Bianchi -- SkyNet SRL Via Maggiate 67/a - 28021 Borgomanero (NO) - tel. +39 0322-836487/834765 - fax +39 0322-836608 http://www.skynet.it Autorizzazione Ministeriale n.197 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e confidenziali ed è vietata la diffusione in qualunque modo eseguita. Qualora Lei non fosse la persona a cui il presente messaggio è destinato, La invitiamo ad eliminarlo ed a distruggerlo non divulgandolo, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Per qualsiasi informazione si prega di contattare i...@skynet.it (e-mail dell'azienda). Rif. D.L. 196/2003-- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15
Op 15/07/2011 8:25, Bill Damage schreef: Hi Allesandro Well ain't that something? I'd have put money on it being something we did. In fact I can add to this - we have another server, which was running the same bacula on F15, which we upgraded using the preupgrade method, i.e. entirely via the web and wizards. This went perfectly. It was this process which went wrong on the second server, so we ended up doing the upgrade via a DVD. Whilst from a Fed pov it now seems ok, there is this bacula problem and pretty much that's the only difference between these systems. Its too important to mess with any longer. We're already a week behind with our backups so I'm going to use the workaround you suggested, thanks. *From:* Alessandro Bianchi a...@skynet.it *To:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Cc:* bill.dam...@yahoo.com *Sent:* Thu, 14 July, 2011 12:50:14 *Subject:* Re: Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15 Il 14/07/2011 13:29, bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net ha scritto: Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config, do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost definitely not a bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem;-) What happens is if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd is running as the user bacula. If I try anything with touches the sd, say in bconsole even a status all, the display stops at the first Connecting to Storage daemon... message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from root with bacula-sd -f -v in another console all is well. There's nothing in any logs I can see. Whats gives please? Thanks. Hi I faced a very similar problem after upgrading from F14 to F15 I had the SD hanging on every operation I tracked it to a permission problem. It seems to have some sort of trouble while dropping privileges. I fixed it editing the /etc/syscongif/bacula-sd file and setting it like follows: SD_USER=root SD_GROUP=bacula I don't like having the SD running as root so before doing that I worked on permissions on the bacula SD storage area (I'm using the File storage) with no luck. Hope this points you in some useful direction. You should really check which group owns the tape devices /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 (or (n)st1 or higher if there's more than one drive). I'll bet it is now owned by the group tape instead of the usual group disk it was in the past. If that's the case you can just run the SD as user bacula and group tape :-) Regards, Jeremy DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15
Hi Jeremy, Since this sounds exactly like the root of the problem any chance of you spelling out to this humble newbie how I'd check and fix that please? Cheers! From: Jeremy Maes j...@schaubroeck.be To: Bill Damage bill.dam...@yahoo.com Cc: a...@skynet.it; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, 15 July, 2011 9:09:36 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15 Op 15/07/2011 8:25, Bill Damage schreef: Hi Allesandro Well ain't that something? I'd have put money on it being something we did. In fact I can add to this - we have another server, which was running the same bacula on F15, which we upgraded using the preupgrade method, i.e. entirely via the web and wizards. This went perfectly. It was this process which went wrong on the second server, so we ended up doing the upgrade via a DVD. Whilst from a Fed pov it now seems ok, there is this bacula problem and pretty much that's the only difference between these systems. Its too important to mess with any longer. We're already a week behind with our backups so I'm going to use the workaround you suggested, thanks. From: Alessandro Bianchi a...@skynet.it To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: bill.dam...@yahoo.com Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 12:50:14 Subject: Re: Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15 Il 14/07/2011 13:29, bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net ha scritto: Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config, do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost definitely not a bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem ;-) What happens is if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd is running as the user bacula. If I try anything with touches the sd, say in bconsole even a status all, the display stops at the first Connecting to Storage daemon... message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from root with bacula-sd -f -v in another console all is well. There's nothing in any logs I can see. Whats gives please? Thanks. Hi I faced a very similar problem after upgrading from F14 to F15 I had the SD hanging on every operation I tracked it to a permission problem. It seems to have some sort of trouble while dropping privileges. I fixed it editing the /etc/syscongif/bacula-sd file and setting it like follows: SD_USER=root SD_GROUP=bacula I don't like having the SD running as root so before doing that I worked on permissions on the bacula SD storage area (I'm using the File storage) with no luck. Hope this points you in some useful direction. You should really check which group owns the tape devices /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 (or (n)st1 or higher if there's more than one drive). I'll bet it is now owned by the group tape instead of the usual group disk it was in the past. If that's the case you can just run the SD as user bacula and group tape :-) Regards, Jeremy DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm-- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15
On 7/13/2011 5:36 AM, Bill Damage wrote: Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config, do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost definitely not a bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem ;-) What happens is if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd is running as the user bacula. If I try anything with touches the sd, say in bconsole even a status all, the display stops at the first Connecting to Storage daemon... message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from root with bacula-sd -f -v in another console all is well. There's nothing in any logs I can see. Whats gives please? Thanks. Does user bacula, (or the group bacula-sd runs as), have the needed permissions to access the /dev devices? Do you have selinux enabled? -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
