Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Friday, July 04, 2008 9:21 AM +1000 Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. What RPM are you using for BackupPC? We have a backuppc rpm in the testing repo for c4 and c5. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (look for the testing repo) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
--On Friday, July 04, 2008 9:21 AM +1000 Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. What RPM are you using for BackupPC? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Ben wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. With some help from the BackupPC list i have narrowed the problem down to the NSS config, I use LDAP to resolve users and groups. In /etc/nsswitch.conf this is what is there and was there with CentOS 5.1, with this config BackupPC will not background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap snip However, with this in nsswitch.conf the service will background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files group: files ldap snip Apparently this has been seen to affect dhcpd too, but with the services nss database. Any ideas on this? What has changed between 5.1 and 5.2? Look in the release notes for C5 (search for nss_ldap): http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2 Try my fixed RPM here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nss_ldap/5/ Upstream bugzilla entry here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014 Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. With some help from the BackupPC list i have narrowed the problem down to the NSS config, I use LDAP to resolve users and groups. In /etc/nsswitch.conf this is what is there and was there with CentOS 5.1, with this config BackupPC will not background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap snip However, with this in nsswitch.conf the service will background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files group: files ldap snip Apparently this has been seen to affect dhcpd too, but with the services nss database. Any ideas on this? What has changed between 5.1 and 5.2? Look in the release notes for C5 (search for nss_ldap): http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2 Try my fixed RPM here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nss_ldap/5/ Upstream bugzilla entry here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014 Thanks for the pointer. Is your RPM any different to the one the Testing Repo as documented in the release notes? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Ben wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. With some help from the BackupPC list i have narrowed the problem down to the NSS config, I use LDAP to resolve users and groups. In /etc/nsswitch.conf this is what is there and was there with CentOS 5.1, with this config BackupPC will not background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap snip However, with this in nsswitch.conf the service will background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files group: files ldap snip Apparently this has been seen to affect dhcpd too, but with the services nss database. Any ideas on this? What has changed between 5.1 and 5.2? Look in the release notes for C5 (search for nss_ldap): http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2 Try my fixed RPM here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nss_ldap/5/ Upstream bugzilla entry here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014 Thanks for the pointer. Is your RPM any different to the one the Testing Repo as documented in the release notes? It is the same RPM, just in a different place so I can link it from the RH bugzilla entry too. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. With some help from the BackupPC list i have narrowed the problem down to the NSS config, I use LDAP to resolve users and groups. In /etc/nsswitch.conf this is what is there and was there with CentOS 5.1, with this config BackupPC will not background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap snip However, with this in nsswitch.conf the service will background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files group: files ldap snip Apparently this has been seen to affect dhcpd too, but with the services nss database. Any ideas on this? What has changed between 5.1 and 5.2? Look in the release notes for C5 (search for nss_ldap): http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2 Try my fixed RPM here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nss_ldap/5/ Upstream bugzilla entry here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014 Thanks for the pointer. Is your RPM any different to the one the Testing Repo as documented in the release notes? It is the same RPM, just in a different place so I can link it from the RH bugzilla entry too. Thanks Johnny, i went and applied the RPM from testing and all works as expected. Thanks for your help. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. With some help from the BackupPC list i have narrowed the problem down to the NSS config, I use LDAP to resolve users and groups. In /etc/nsswitch.conf this is what is there and was there with CentOS 5.1, with this config BackupPC will not background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap snip However, with this in nsswitch.conf the service will background. snip passwd: files ldap shadow: files group: files ldap snip Apparently this has been seen to affect dhcpd too, but with the services nss database. Any ideas on this? What has changed between 5.1 and 5.2? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Ben wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ben I am running backuppc on 3 CentOS-5.2 machines (and several more on CentOS-4.6 machines). I had no issues after upgrading to 5.2 on those machines. Good to hear. Are they i386 or x86_64? Are they using 3.0 or 3.1? version 3.1.0 ... 1 x86_64 machine, 2 i386 machines signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ben PS. Here is a list of installed perl packages. # rpm -qa | grep perl perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6 perl-Crypt-DES-2.05-4.el5 perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6 perl-DateTime-Format-Mail-0.30-4.el5 perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1 perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-5.el5 nagios-plugins-perl-1.4.11-2.el5 perl-Config-IniFiles-2.39-6.el5 perl-Digest-SHA1-2.11-1.2.1 perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-15 perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-1.c5 mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5 perl-Params-Validate-0.88-3.el5 perl-URI-1.35-3 perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1 perl-DateTime-0.41-1.el5 perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF-0.04-1.el5 perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6 perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1 perl-Time-modules-2003.1126-4.el5.1 perl-MailTools-1.77-1.el5 perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 perl-Net-SNMP-5.2.0-1.el5.1 perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1 perl-Class-Singleton-1.03-3.el5 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1 perl-XML-RSS-1.31-1.el5 perl-Geo-IP-1.28-3.el5 perl-TimeDate-1.16-5.el5 I am running backuppc on 3 CentOS-5.2 machines (and several more on CentOS-4.6 machines). I had no issues after upgrading to 5.2 on those machines. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ben wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ben I am running backuppc on 3 CentOS-5.2 machines (and several more on CentOS-4.6 machines). I had no issues after upgrading to 5.2 on those machines. Good to hear. Are they i386 or x86_64? Are they using 3.0 or 3.1? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
