total failure this morning.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just had to get up and discovered no report in the printer output tray. On inspection with htop, most of the amanda stuff seems to be sleeping or waiting. An amstatus says its hung on the first dump, and I'm seeing broken pipe stuff in the logs. The only thing that comes to mind

debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just unpacked the 2.5.1p3-20070220 src tree and ran a grep for 'amanda-dbg', finding it only in my gh.cf file that drives the ./configure step. I expected that result as it hasn't been configured yet, just unpacked. Then I backed up to the 2.5.1p3-20070216 tree which is running

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, You found a bug. Old debug files are not removed, this bug exist since we created subdir for debugging files, only the root is cleaned. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just unpacked the 2.5.1p3-20070220 src tree and ran a grep for 'amanda-dbg', finding it only in my

Re: total failure this morning.

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-02-21 11:15, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just had to get up and discovered no report in the printer output tray. On inspection with htop, most of the amanda stuff seems to be sleeping or waiting. An amstatus says its hung on the first dump, and I'm seeing broken pipe stuff

Re: total failure this morning.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-02-21 11:15, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just had to get up and discovered no report in the printer output tray. On inspection with htop, most of the amanda stuff seems to be sleeping or waiting. An amstatus says its hung on the

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Gene, You found a bug. Old debug files are not removed, this bug exist since we created subdir for debugging files, only the root is cleaned. Jean-Louis I'd assume that similar code for the amanda-dbg assignment could be patched in

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Gene, You found a bug. Old debug files are not removed, this bug exist since we created subdir for debugging files, only the root is cleaned. Jean-Louis I'd

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Gene, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Its building now. I guess I'm getting slow, but I don't see the magic in that simple a patch. If it works, I assume that it won't leave behind any dbg files in that tree after tonight's run

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debug files are kept 4 days by default (can be configured with '--with-debug-days'). Only the files from the same program will get deleted. eg. amcheck will only delete the amcheck.*.debug files Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

Re: debugging logs.

2007-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Debug files are kept 4 days by default (can be configured with '--with-debug-days'). Oh, goodie! I agree, when you need them they're current much easier to find instead of wading through a directory that may have a thousand files

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-02-21 Thread FL
On 2/21/07, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FL schrieb: A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available. What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. Changer problem: no slots available In my case it helped to change the group of the used

Problems with AIX

2007-02-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Does anybody run Amanda on AIX 5.2 ? I try different binary packages, I compile the 2.5.1p3 sources, but the result is always the same : segmentation fault. I am not an AIX guru, so I have no idea about the problem : all amanda modules I try crashed immediately, is it a lib problem ? I

Re: Problems with AIX

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Pozzi, On 02/22/2007 12:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anybody run Amanda on AIX 5.2 ? 5.2.0.0 or above ? What is the output of oslevel -r ? I try different binary packages, I compile the 2.5.1p3 sources, but the result is always the same : segmentation fault. Have you

Re: Problems with AIX

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Pozzi, On 02/22/2007 12:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody run Amanda on AIX 5.2 ? just another question, how have you compiled amanda on AIX ? I've just tried to do so with amanda-2.5.1p2 (we use Solaris as main environment, and there is no need to backup our AIX boxes yet).

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-02-21 Thread FL
Now that this problem is overcome, have I run out of tape? Perhaps I need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_ These dumps were to tape Daily-12. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to

amtapetype

2007-02-21 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am trying to find out the parameters of my tape unit using amtapetype but it looks like something is failing. When I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 I always get this message: Estimate phase 1...amtapetype: could not write any data in this pass: short write Then amtapetype finishes. The