Hello all, I experienced a crash (described hereafter) after editing the bacula-dir.conf file.
It seems that bacula-dir needs to write some temporary files when examining/modifying its (sqlite) database . It tries to do so in the directory that was the current directory when the bacula-dir daemon started. If that directory is not writable by Bacula, a crash results. The scripts in my configuration (Mandrake) do not make sure that this is the case : so if I start bacula-dir with the usual service bacula-dir start when I am in my home directory (not writable by Bacula), it won't work. cd'ing to a directory writable by bacula and restarting the bacula-dir solves the problem. It would probably be a good idea to ensure that the temporary files bacula-dir needs are written in the same directory as the sqlite bacula.db itself. Should I submit a bug-report ? Cheers -- Jean Marc ---------------------------- Message original ---------------------------- Objet: [Bacula-users] sqlite crash in bacula-dir-1.36.2-1mdk De: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 17 mai 2005 16:30 À: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, On a fresh install of bacula, the following leads to a crash : - do some backup - edit bacula-dir.conf to add some files - restart bacula-dir results in this error (seen from bconsole): *status dir Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula Could not open database "bacula". sqlite.c:151 Unable to open Database=/var/lib/bacula/bacula.db. ERR=malformed database schema - unable to open a temporary database file for storing temporary tables The only way out is to recreate the database. I don't see any permissions problems. The directory /var/lib/bacula belongs to the user bacula. /tmp and /var/tmp are writable by bacula. I cannot setdebug without getting that same error. If I use sqlite to see what's in the bacula.db, I see the database "main" which is in the normal place (/var/lib/bacula) and 1 temp /var/tmp/sqlite_qVfam9PKLi9Sfu1 /var/tmp has this permissions (same as /tmp) drwxrwx-wt 2 root adm and there is no file /var/tmp/sqlite_qVfam9PKLi9Sfu1 Where on earth is bacula trying to create this temporary database ? And which one ? My install : Linux Mandrake 10.1 Bacula 1.36.2-1mdk from cooker What beats me is that as long as I do not change bacula-dir.conf, I can do as many backups as I want. I can stop/restart bacula-dir, all is OK. As soon as I change bacula-dir.conf, kaboom. Any hints ? Thanks in advance -- Jean-Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
