On Sunday 14 February 2021 02:00:00 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Some days my system logs are being flooded with hundreds > of thousands of network entries saying "STATE_INVALID_DROP". > > Nearly all are caused by packets coming from my regular > desktop system to my amanda server. And based on the > times and sizes (all full to MTU) they are amanda dump > packets. > > When it occurs, a run of bad packets will last for about > one minute (300-400 bad packets per second) and after a > gap of about nine minutes will start again for one minute. > Here is a sample from last night. > > Bad Run of Packets > start end > Feb 13 03:28:43 03:29:56 > Feb 13 03:38:44 03:39:54 > Feb 13 03:48:45 03:50:20 > Feb 13 03:58:46 04:00:00 > Feb 13 04:08:47 04:10:25 > Feb 13 04:18:48 04:20:09 > Feb 13 04:28:49 04:30:01 > > This continued until after 6AM. > > Note, the amdump run successfully completed even > with this bad activity, but took much longer than > normal (like 2-3 times longer). > > I am getting some of these bad packet runs each night. > However on most nights it is only a couple of bad runs > lasting a minute or even less. > > Any suggestions on what/how to investigate this. > > Thanks, > Jon I just went back 1000 lines in my syslog, did not find any of those, but am finding reject notes from a large group of dns_servers that are said to be utf8 flagged.
And 8 minutes after amanda started several repeats of this message I cannot decode: Feb 14 02:08:11 coyote udisksd[20975]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST_M13FQBL_QNR_BFW: Error updating SMART data: Error sending ATA command CHECK POWER MO DE: Unexpected sense data returned:#0120000: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 51 00 00 21 04 00 00 p........Q..!...#0120010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................#01 2 (g-io-error-quark, 0) The next repeat is ten minutes later: Feb 14 02:18:10 coyote udisksd[20975]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST_M13FQBL_QNR_BFW: Error updating SMART data: Error sending ATA command CHECK POWER MO DE: Unexpected sense data returned:#0120000: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 51 00 00 21 04 00 00 p........Q..!...#0120010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................#01 2 (g-io-error-quark, 0) ST sounds like a Seagate drive, which I have several of. But which one? Is my continual, apparently random but has hit 5 damned nights in a row amanda CRC that kills amstatus problem because the drive is spinning down in the middle of a backup? Time to triple-check smartctl I think. Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
