[Bug 265102] Re: bacula not compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
This ticket is a bit old. Could someone please try turning on fortify source with a current 5.2.x version and see if there is a problem. If there is I will fix it. That said, I still recommend against using fortify source, as I previously wrote, Bacula has all its own routines since 10 years

[Bug 830108] Re: bacula director eror in initial conf file

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Someone must have fat fingered something because upstream we have never had the semicolon misplaced as in the above problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bacula in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830108

[Bug 645097] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV in e_msg()

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
This looks like Bacula (bat) is blowing itself up with a segfault on purpose to get a dump. This usually happens after Bacula has detected an error in the bat.conf file. The only way to know exactly what is going on is to see what Bat has sent to stdout. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-03-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
It looks like the Bacula version has changed between LTS versions, and in the change, the Bacula catalog database changed format, so it has a new version number. Updating the Bacula catalog is done automatically in rpms, but probably not in .debs. You must apply an update script that you can

Re: [Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-04-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with LTS (other than I develop on a Ubuntu system), so I cannot resolve the Ubuntu problem. However, I suggest you download the source, either from the Ubuntu source or from Source Forge and look in the updatedb directory. It has all the scripts you

Re: [Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-08-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The upgrade scripts used to update from one Bacula DB schema to the next are kept in bacula-src/src/cats and have names that begin with update_ There is one main script named update_bacula_tables (build during the ./configure command from update_bacula_tables.in). This script then calls

[Bug 211297] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
The threaded stack trace doesn't make much sense to me because it shows that bat is seg faulting in wait_data_intr() because the class pointer is NULL. Can you answer the following? - What version of the compiler are you using? - Have you or the packaging changed any of Bacula's default compile

Re: [Bug 211297] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Reinhard, On Monday 14 April 2008 19:47:25 meux wrote: Hi Kern, thanks for your answer. I am using the default package provided by Ubuntu Hoary. I haven't compiled it nor have ich changed any compile options. OK. I think this error occurs, when i close bat via File-Quit but i am

[Bug 246298] Re: package bacula-director-sqlite3 2.4.0-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/bacula-dir usr/sbin/dbcheck] failed to install/upgrade:

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
If Fortify source is turned of the problem *is* fixed and not simply hidden. The output indicates that that this crash is due to the fact that Bacula was built with -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (please check spelling). The glibc code that implements this feature according to the authors of the code may

[Bug 246298] Re: package bacula-director-sqlite3 2.4.0-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/bacula-dir usr/sbin/dbcheck] failed to install/upgrade:

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
I would recommend to the packagers to move up to Bacula version 2.4.2 as quickly as possible. Versions 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 had a number of important problems concerning mounting tape volumes particularly in manual mount situations (non-autochanger). Version 2.4.2 is a critical bug fix to versions

[Bug 265102] Re: bacula not compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
This problem *should* already be fixed in the trunk, though I have never actually tried building and running it with fortify source. We *strongly* recommend not to enable fortify source. Bacula is already well protected and has its own buffer overrun detection that in general detects most overrun

[Bug 228693] Re: [SRU] bacula-director-pgsql postinstall broken

2008-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Thanks for upgrading to the 2.4.2 version, which is much more stable than 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. One additional consideration when producing Bacula packages. I regularly release well tested patches to bugs to the bacula-bugs section of the Source Forge release are. When you are building new packages,

[Bug 222558] Re: password in bacula-fd.conf is not auto-generated

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
I was not aware of this bug (sorry, I should look at them all), but I think I can shed some light on it and even provide the code necessary to fix it. Basically the user is saying that each Bacula daemon generated needs a shared secrete random password used for authentication, and these passwords

Re: [Bug 241480] Re: bacula-fd does not start when installed via bacula-client

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:07:52 Ante Karamatić wrote: It's worth mentioning that after the network is started, avahi (on default install) looks at DNS to see if '.local' domain is served by DNS server. If that's true, avahi doesn't start. If there is no DNS for '.local', avahi will

Re: [Bug 222558] Re: password in bacula-fd.conf is not auto-generated

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:13:20 Ante Karamatić wrote: I'll mark this bug as 'medium' at the moment. But this should be resolved as soon as possible. Kern, of course, any code would be welcome. It's clear that we should generate password on postinstall of package, not during

Re: [Bug 241480] Re: bacula-fd does not start when installed via bacula-client

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:32:44 Ante Karamatić wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:58:46 - Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why you cannot start Bacula after the network is up and running and DNS is serving names. That is how it works on all other systems

Re: [Bug 227613] Re: [SRU] SIGSEGV in bacula-fd

2008-09-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 27 September 2008 09:45:11 Ante Karamatić wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:36:41 - Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008 20:04:18 Ante Karamatić wrote: The upstream bug has not been fixed in 2.2.8!! I haven't said that :) OK, no problem. I

Re: [Bug 286643] Re: bacula client configuration is broken out of the box

2008-10-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
for all problems, concerns or questions you may have about Bacula. Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager -- bacula client configuration is broken out of the box https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which

[Bug 1280149] Re: Add Bacula fork Bareos to repository

2014-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
of the Bareos fork, please see the new Bacula website (under development) at: http://blog.bacula.org Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bacula in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1280149] Bug 1280149] [NEW] Add Bacula fork Bareos to repository

2014-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Although it is true that the git repo has not been updated for some time, there is a good reason, for more information, please see www.bacula.org - News. There is indeed a fork of Bacula, but that fork has only *one* former Bacula developer. Although, like other open source projects, developers

Re: [Bug 590887] Re: btraceback utility doesn't work

2011-03-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 07 March 2011 16:12:51 Chuck Short wrote: Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the

Re: [Bug 590887] Re: btraceback utility doesn't work

2011-03-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 07 March 2011 16:12:51 Chuck Short wrote: Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the

Re: [Bug 735369] [NEW] Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-03-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
The new version of Bacula (5.2.0) to be released in about a month has a number of fixes, and will work perfectly with Qt 4.6.2 (Lucid) where I have done the development work. There have been quite a number of enhancements and a lot of stability improvements in bat 5.2.0. As I previously

Re: [Bug 735369] Re: Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-04-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:23:21 Clint Byrum wrote: Kern, does this mean that there is an explicit fix in the code of 5.2.0 that will make this problem go away on Qt 4.6.2 ? There have been a very large number of changes to bat from 5.0.x to 5.2.0, including new features, bug fixes, and

Re: [Bug 735369] Re: Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-04-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 02 April 2011 16:40:13 Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Kern Sibbald's message of Sat Apr 02 07:20:23 UTC 2011: On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:23:21 Clint Byrum wrote: Kern, does this mean that there is an explicit fix in the code of 5.2.0 that will make this problem go away on

Re: [Bug 387778] Re: Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt

2009-06-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 20:17:49 Brian Murray wrote: Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and including a patch. However, the .desktop file is generated when building the source package so your patch, while it fixes the resulting .desktop file, won't apply to the package. I'm not

Re: [Bug 387778] Re: Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt

2009-06-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 21:46:08 Martin Kalén wrote: 2009/6/16 Kern Sibbald k...@sibbald.com 1. Your bug emails generated by your system apparently don't take into account that there may be more one place we get bug emails. I recommend that you add something like Launchpad.bacula

Re: [Bug 590894] Re: bacula-director crashes when nsswitch uses wins for hosts

2010-08-25 Thread Kern Sibbald
There is an attachment - see on the right side of the page Bug attachments - debug messages and running under gdb It is just as I suspected: Bacula has called gethostbyname, which then seg faults when in the wins code. Unless Bacula is passing bad arguments to gethostbyname, which is highly

Re: [Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2009-11-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
One of the reasons for using Bacula is so that you don't have to track what Volumes it is using. It does all the work for you, and if you trust it, you won't need particular Volume labels. That said, If you really want to use Client based Volume labels, you can, but to do so, the only

Re: [Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2009-11-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Fair enough, obviously I have misunderstood the use case for variable expansion. My apologies. No need to appologize. Bacula is very complicated, and it is not always obvious what features to use to do what you want (even for me sometimes). Unfortunately, for lots of reasons variable

[Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2010-03-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
** Changed in: bacula Status: New = Invalid -- variable expansion uses outdated data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459573 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bacula in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 579924] [NEW] Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2010-05-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
It appears that the upgrade process attempted to upgrade two versions of the database at one time. Bacula only supports upgrading one version at a time, so from database version 10, you must first apply the scripts that do the upgrade to version 11, and then apply the upgrade scripts that

[Bug 290775] [NEW] The nvidia module does not load on kernel 2.6.24-21

2008-10-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: After upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.24-21-generic the nvidia driver does not load. I have reinstalled linux-restricted-modules-generic, but no go. The nvidia error log is not very helpful: ... (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer

[Bug 290775] Re: The nvidia module does not load on kernel 2.6.24-21

2008-10-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
** Attachment added: Xorg log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19032744/Xorg.0.log.save -- The nvidia module does not load on kernel 2.6.24-21 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290775 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 286643] Re: bacula client configuration is broken out of the box

2008-10-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 20:20:04 Ante Karamatić wrote: I would just like to present my opinion on this one... This change was introduced in Debian as fix for Debian bug 367105: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367105 Both configurations have valid use cases. I'm kind of

Re: [Bug 286643] Re: bacula client configuration is broken out of the box

2008-10-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
for all problems, concerns or questions you may have about Bacula. Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager -- bacula client configuration is broken out of the box https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 211297] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
The threaded stack trace doesn't make much sense to me because it shows that bat is seg faulting in wait_data_intr() because the class pointer is NULL. Can you answer the following? - What version of the compiler are you using? - Have you or the packaging changed any of Bacula's default compile

Re: [Bug 211297] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Reinhard, On Monday 14 April 2008 19:47:25 meux wrote: Hi Kern, thanks for your answer. I am using the default package provided by Ubuntu Hoary. I haven't compiled it nor have ich changed any compile options. OK. I think this error occurs, when i close bat via File-Quit but i am

[Bug 91053] Re: Bacula Seems to Hang After Rerunning Failed Job

2008-03-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
I can confirm that this was a bug, but the version mentioned (1.36.3) is *very* old and the bug has long since been fixed in later versions. -- Bacula Seems to Hang After Rerunning Failed Job https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91053 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 63917] Re: Queries fail - no such column

2008-03-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
This bug report should be closed as it is a user input error. On the queries reported as not working, the user has entered a string in places where the query expects integers (MediaId and JobId). The query command is not designed to check input types, that is the user's responsibility, so it is

[Bug 290775] Re: The nvidia module does not load on kernel 2.6.24-21

2008-12-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
I had forgotten that I submitted this bug report -- in between time, I resolved it somehow (editing the conf file I think) and now we are on kernel 2.6.24-22, which works fine. However, in upgrading to 2.6.24-22, it somehow broke my 2.6.24-21 boot so that X will no longer start. There is

[Bug 463940] Re: No fans, thermalzone on HP Envy 15 and HP DV6T Quad

2009-12-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
This bug report seems to be the most similar to my problem. Problem: With latest Karmic (KDE) installed, my fan runs very fast (annoyingly loud). Computer: Dell Studio 1747: Intel i7-720QM chip. Both /proc/acpi/fan and /proc/acpi/thermal_zone are empty. Running sensors_detect results in Sorry,

Re: [Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2009-11-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Fair enough, obviously I have misunderstood the use case for variable expansion. My apologies. No need to appologize. Bacula is very complicated, and it is not always obvious what features to use to do what you want (even for me sometimes). Unfortunately, for lots of reasons variable

Re: [Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2009-11-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
One of the reasons for using Bacula is so that you don't have to track what Volumes it is using. It does all the work for you, and if you trust it, you won't need particular Volume labels. That said, If you really want to use Client based Volume labels, you can, but to do so, the only

Re: [Bug 227613] Re: [SRU] SIGSEGV in bacula-fd

2008-09-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 27 September 2008 09:45:11 Ante Karamatić wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:36:41 - Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008 20:04:18 Ante Karamatić wrote: The upstream bug has not been fixed in 2.2.8!! I haven't said that :) OK, no problem. I

Re: [Bug 227613] Re: [SRU] SIGSEGV in bacula-fd

2008-09-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 27 September 2008 12:06:24 Ante Karamatić wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:25:55 - Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, no problem. I didn't take offense, hope you didn't, but just wanted to clarify. Of course not. The bug in the main Bacula 2.2.8 Branch HEAD

Re: [Bug 241480] Re: bacula-fd does not start when installed via bacula-client

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:07:52 Ante Karamatić wrote: It's worth mentioning that after the network is started, avahi (on default install) looks at DNS to see if '.local' domain is served by DNS server. If that's true, avahi doesn't start. If there is no DNS for '.local', avahi will

Re: [Bug 222558] Re: password in bacula-fd.conf is not auto-generated

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:13:20 Ante Karamatić wrote: I'll mark this bug as 'medium' at the moment. But this should be resolved as soon as possible. Kern, of course, any code would be welcome. It's clear that we should generate password on postinstall of package, not during

Re: [Bug 241480] Re: bacula-fd does not start when installed via bacula-client

2008-09-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:32:44 Ante Karamatić wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:58:46 - Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why you cannot start Bacula after the network is up and running and DNS is serving names. That is how it works on all other systems

Re: [Bug 227613] Re: [SRU] SIGSEGV in bacula-fd

2008-09-25 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 20:04:18 Ante Karamatić wrote: The upstream bug has not been fixed in 2.2.8!! The bug *was* fixed in the 2.2.8 version with two patches. Did you apply them? If not an easy way to fix it is to take src/dird/backup.c from either the last commit to Branch-2.2 or

[Bug 228693] Re: [SRU] bacula-director-pgsql postinstall broken

2008-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Thanks for upgrading to the 2.4.2 version, which is much more stable than 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. One additional consideration when producing Bacula packages. I regularly release well tested patches to bugs to the bacula-bugs section of the Source Forge release are. When you are building new packages,

[Bug 222558] Re: password in bacula-fd.conf is not auto-generated

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
I was not aware of this bug (sorry, I should look at them all), but I think I can shed some light on it and even provide the code necessary to fix it. Basically the user is saying that each Bacula daemon generated needs a shared secrete random password used for authentication, and these passwords

[Bug 246298] Re: package bacula-director-sqlite3 2.4.0-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/bacula-dir usr/sbin/dbcheck] failed to install/upgrade:

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
If Fortify source is turned of the problem *is* fixed and not simply hidden. The output indicates that that this crash is due to the fact that Bacula was built with -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (please check spelling). The glibc code that implements this feature according to the authors of the code may

[Bug 246298] Re: package bacula-director-sqlite3 2.4.0-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/bacula-dir usr/sbin/dbcheck] failed to install/upgrade:

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
I would recommend to the packagers to move up to Bacula version 2.4.2 as quickly as possible. Versions 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 had a number of important problems concerning mounting tape volumes particularly in manual mount situations (non-autochanger). Version 2.4.2 is a critical bug fix to versions

[Bug 265102] Re: bacula not compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE

2008-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
This problem *should* already be fixed in the trunk, though I have never actually tried building and running it with fortify source. We *strongly* recommend not to enable fortify source. Bacula is already well protected and has its own buffer overrun detection that in general detects most overrun

[Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-03-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
It looks like the Bacula version has changed between LTS versions, and in the change, the Bacula catalog database changed format, so it has a new version number. Updating the Bacula catalog is done automatically in rpms, but probably not in .debs. You must apply an update script that you can

[Bug 840299] [NEW] Your ch.archive.ubuntu.com is missing a lot of packages

2011-09-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: I have just loaded Lucid on a new laptop and have subsequently started loading the ppa kubuntu-desktop-kde, in doing so, I am missing a *lot* of packages such as liblua50. This is because I am in Switzerland, and you are using a broken download site ch.archive.ubuntu.com.

[Bug 840299] Re: Your ch.archive.ubuntu.com is missing a lot of packages

2011-09-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840299 Title: Your ch.archive.ubuntu.com is missing a lot of packages To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 265102] Re: bacula not compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
This ticket is a bit old. Could someone please try turning on fortify source with a current 5.2.x version and see if there is a problem. If there is I will fix it. That said, I still recommend against using fortify source, as I previously wrote, Bacula has all its own routines since 10 years

[Bug 830108] Re: bacula director eror in initial conf file

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Someone must have fat fingered something because upstream we have never had the semicolon misplaced as in the above problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830108 Title: bacula

[Bug 645097] Re: bat crashed with SIGSEGV in e_msg()

2011-11-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
This looks like Bacula (bat) is blowing itself up with a segfault on purpose to get a dump. This usually happens after Bacula has detected an error in the bat.conf file. The only way to know exactly what is going on is to see what Bat has sent to stdout. -- You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 372328] Re: Bacula has no encryption support in bacula-sd-sqlite3

2009-05-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 20:35:58 Matthew Hooker wrote: Have tried to rebuild using instructions from here (as root) http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing- lists-3/bacula-25/bacula-in-ubuntu-8-04-without-tls-91988/#283516 (some commands below changed as the

Re: [Bug 735369] Re: Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-04-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:23:21 Clint Byrum wrote: Kern, does this mean that there is an explicit fix in the code of 5.2.0 that will make this problem go away on Qt 4.6.2 ? There have been a very large number of changes to bat from 5.0.x to 5.2.0, including new features, bug fixes, and

Re: [Bug 735369] Re: Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-04-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 02 April 2011 16:40:13 Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Kern Sibbald's message of Sat Apr 02 07:20:23 UTC 2011: On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:23:21 Clint Byrum wrote: Kern, does this mean that there is an explicit fix in the code of 5.2.0 that will make this problem go away on

Re: [Bug 735369] [NEW] Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-03-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
The new version of Bacula (5.2.0) to be released in about a month has a number of fixes, and will work perfectly with Qt 4.6.2 (Lucid) where I have done the development work. There have been quite a number of enhancements and a lot of stability improvements in bat 5.2.0. As I previously

Re: [Bug 521698] Re: Fan runs too fast on Dell Studio 1747 with i7 chip

2010-07-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 22:45:37 wojtekjs wrote: What video card do you have? Itn't it ATI? If so - try installing ATIs catalyst driver (provided by ubuntu team). Thanks for the suggestion. I have given up. I put the laptop in the basement and use it as a test machine doing nightly

Re: [Bug 521698] Re: Fan runs too fast on Dell Studio 1747 with i7 chip

2010-10-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 17 October 2010 16:51:52 Fabio Marconi wrote: Hello Is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's, Lucid's or Maverick's packages? Thanks in advance Fabio ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New = Incomplete I am not sure if the Dell problem is now fixed. The problem

Re: [Bug 590887] Re: btraceback utility doesn't work

2011-03-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 07 March 2011 16:12:51 Chuck Short wrote: Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the

Re: [Bug 590887] Re: btraceback utility doesn't work

2011-03-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 07 March 2011 16:12:51 Chuck Short wrote: Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the

[Bug 459573] Re: variable expansion uses outdated data

2010-03-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
** Changed in: bacula Status: New = Invalid -- variable expansion uses outdated data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459573 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 387778] Re: Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt

2009-06-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 20:17:49 Brian Murray wrote: Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and including a patch. However, the .desktop file is generated when building the source package so your patch, while it fixes the resulting .desktop file, won't apply to the package. I'm not

Re: [Bug 387778] Re: Incorrect application entry for bacula-console-qt

2009-06-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 21:46:08 Martin Kalén wrote: 2009/6/16 Kern Sibbald k...@sibbald.com 1. Your bug emails generated by your system apparently don't take into account that there may be more one place we get bug emails. I recommend that you add something like Launchpad.bacula

[Bug 521698] [NEW] Fan runs too fast on Dell Studio 1747 with i7 chip

2010-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: On my Dell Studio 1747 i7 CPU, the fan runs too fast, making the machine unusable because of the noise. I have tried Kubuntu Hardy, Karmic, and Lucid. All have the same problem. It appears that there is no fan control, no sensors are found. Under Win 7 the fan runs very

[Bug 521703] [NEW] Cannot report kubuntu bug

2010-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: The kubuntu bug reporting page has way too much information, but does not give me a link to report a bug on a particular application. It talks a lot about clicking on help and all that, but on Lucid, I want to report a bug on KPackageKit, which does not have a help. Please

[Bug 521705] [NEW] Please do not package KPackageKit with Lucid

2010-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: I've installed and used Lucid, and finally, it is the first Kubuntu since Hardy that has a usable GUI (for me) -- please keep it up. However, the KPackageKit is the worst package manager that I have ever seen. There is no help, it is impossible to easily find packages (the

[Bug 521703] Re: Cannot report kubuntu bug

2010-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
It is OK if you closed the bug. I don't want to annoy you, but I think you missed my point. The point, is that there is no easy way to report a bug. The ubuntu-bug program will not accept a bug report for KPackageKit, and the page you pointed me to is exactly what I am complaining about. I read

[Bug 521698] Re: Fan runs too fast on Dell Studio 1747 with i7 chip

2010-02-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
I have read about the fan problem long before submitting this bug report -- there are definitely problems, but I have no problems on Win 7. Your two responses don't seem to be consistent. First you say that this is a problem with the Dell computer, and that it is even worse under windows, then

Re: [Bug 590894] Re: bacula-director crashes when nsswitch uses wins for hosts

2010-08-25 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 10:01:27 Chuck Short wrote: I have submitted this bug upstream as: http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1629 chuck ** Bug watch added: bugs.bacula.org/ #1629 http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1629 ** Changed in: bacula (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete =

Re: [Bug 590894] Re: bacula-director crashes when nsswitch uses wins for hosts

2010-08-25 Thread Kern Sibbald
There is an attachment - see on the right side of the page Bug attachments - debug messages and running under gdb It is just as I suspected: Bacula has called gethostbyname, which then seg faults when in the wins code. Unless Bacula is passing bad arguments to gethostbyname, which is highly

Re: [Bug 579924] [NEW] Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2010-05-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
It appears that the upgrade process attempted to upgrade two versions of the database at one time. Bacula only supports upgrading one version at a time, so from database version 10, you must first apply the scripts that do the upgrade to version 11, and then apply the upgrade scripts that

[Bug 1280149] Bug 1280149] [NEW] Add Bacula fork Bareos to repository

2014-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Although it is true that the git repo has not been updated for some time, there is a good reason, for more information, please see www.bacula.org - News. There is indeed a fork of Bacula, but that fork has only *one* former Bacula developer. Although, like other open source projects, developers

[Bug 1280149] Re: Add Bacula fork Bareos to repository

2014-02-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
of the Bareos fork, please see the new Bacula website (under development) at: http://blog.bacula.org Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280149 Title: Add

Re: [Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-04-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with LTS (other than I develop on a Ubuntu system), so I cannot resolve the Ubuntu problem. However, I suggest you download the source, either from the Ubuntu source or from Source Forge and look in the updatedb directory. It has all the scripts you

[Bug 1005594] [NEW] Ubuntu server unusable due to poor performance

2012-05-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: Recently I the Ubuntu 12.04 server installed 12.04 on an HP Compaq Elite 8200 with a 1.5TB harddisk Model: ATA WDC WD15EARS-00Z. I partitioned the disk with guided full disk LVM. After it was up and running the performance was so terrible that the machine was essentially

Re: [Bug 579924] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu LTS skips database version - Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10

2012-08-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The upgrade scripts used to update from one Bacula DB schema to the next are kept in bacula-src/src/cats and have names that begin with update_ There is one main script named update_bacula_tables (build during the ./configure command from update_bacula_tables.in). This script then calls

Re: [Bug 1005594] Re: Ubuntu server unusable due to poor performance

2014-04-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Thanks for trying it. I reported this so long ago, that I had even forgotten about it. Since I'll be moving up to 14.04 in another month or two, version 12.04 is less critical. I suggest that with numbers like you show below the problem seems to be resolved, so please close the ticket. Best

[Bug 1553563] Re: bconsole to Bacula Director fails with authorization problem message

2016-06-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
I am happy to pipe in as I would like to see Bacula working reliably everywhere. The regression testing is documented in the Developer's manual if I am not mistaken and is not hard to setup. The tests want to build from source, link, install then run the tests so if you want to run from pre-built

[Bug 1553563] Re: bconsole to Bacula Director fails with authorization problem message

2016-06-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
I have installed a 16.04 system and built Bacula using the project compile and link options. Everything works perfectly both with and without binary stripping. I conclude from this that the Ubuntu packaging is using different options on the compiles and/or links and/or stripping which prohibit

[Bug 1589551] [NEW] upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails

2016-06-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: This is probably the same as many of the other bug reports already reported on updating from 14.04 or directly installing 16.04, so after reading this bug report, feel free to close it. I have been using Ubuntu LTS for about 10 years now and never had any serious problems.

[Bug 1570923] Re: bacula-dir won't start with "undefined symbol: mysql_init"

2016-06-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Robie, Thank you for your quick response. It makes sense that the default MySQL is thread-safe and there is no _r variant. Your patch looks fine, but please be aware that I suspect that it may link Bacula with the static version of MySQL rather than the shared object (.so), and your patch is

[Bug 1570923] Re: bacula-dir won't start with "undefined symbol: mysql_init"

2016-06-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
The good news is that I have now build and tested Bacula version 7.4.1 with the patch for getting Bacula to properly link with MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04, and it does work. The bad news is that the "out of the box" MySQL performs very badly to the point of being unusable with Bacula -- it is

[Bug 1592749] [NEW] MySQL 5.7 slow with Bacula 7.4

2016-06-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
Public bug reported: This is not really a bug report, rather it is a performance concern. I am running a standard Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit desktop installation. On this system, I have built a Bacula 7.4 and I have installed PostgreSQL and MySQL both are "out of the box". PostgreSQL performs as

[Bug 1570923] Re: bacula-dir won't start with "undefined symbol: mysql_init"

2016-06-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
no longer compatible with your released MySQL. Can someone clarify this point for me? Kern Sibbald Bacula Project Manager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570923 Title: bacula-dir w

[Bug 1553563] Re: bconsole to Bacula Director fails with authorization problem message

2016-05-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
I am not yet running Xenial because every machine I tried to update from 14.04 to 16.04 ended up being non-bootable, and on machine, I loaded 16.04 and it destroyed all my Windows partitions :-( However, the problems you are experiencing seem to be related to some new linking parameters that are

[Bug 1577858] Re: bacula mysql support requires server configuration changes

2016-05-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
I consider this a MySQL bug, because they have apparently made the value 0 illegal as a default for a DATETIME value which is nothing other than a standard Unix time variable. That said, they are not likely to agree this is a bug and even if they do it will take a long time to fix. The solution

[Bug 1570923] Re: bacula-dir won't start with "undefined symbol: mysql_init"

2016-06-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
This is getting a bit off the subject of this bug report, but ... The only thing difficult about PostgreSQL with Bacula is getting the authentication to work, and there is a chapter in the Bacula main manual on PostgreSQL that tells how to get Bacula working with it. That said, there is one

Re: [Bug 1592749] Re: MySQL 5.7 slow with Bacula 7.4

2016-06-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
OK, thanks. Since you have an Oracle email address, you might be particularly nterested to know that I tested the MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04 in place of MySQL, and it was even slower :-) On 06/24/2016 01:08 PM, Lars Tangvald wrote: > I'll use your tests to try to make a simple test case for this,

Re: [Bug 1553563] Re: bconsole to Bacula Director fails with authorization problem message

2016-06-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Nish, Thanks for taking the time to send me a personal note. After more research, I agree 100% with you that it is not related to stripping the binaries. I deduce from Hiroaki's analysis that the problem is that the addresses in the shared object that are exported are modified with the

[Bug 1592749] Re: MySQL 5.7 slow with Bacula 7.4

2016-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Yes, on 5.7 the mysqlclient_r was replaced with mysqlclient, which caused some linking problems until I corrected the configure.in script. No, I do not have anything else installed that uses MySQL, but I can run more of the regression tests. All the tests on 5.7 were run on a new installation of

[Bug 1592749] Re: MySQL 5.7 slow with Bacula 7.4

2016-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
The good news is that I still have the disk with the Ubuntu 16.04 install where I did my original testing, so I plugged it in and booted it. I am now running tests with exactly the same environment I previously used. The bad news is that I still see substantial timing differences between MySQL

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