Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:33, justin wrote:
Hi,
<snip>
And that's it! The same thing happens with commands such as "label
barcodes". I'm running on Solaris 9 with a tape library. mtx and mt
commands work fine even if bacula is running - I don't think it's
anything to do with device contention. I attach what I think are the
relevant parts of the dir and sd conf files. Anyone know what's going on?
You will need to run it under the debugger as described in the Kaboom chapter
of the manual.
OK - done that. Some interesting results...
First of all, I don't think there's anything really useful here - the
system *appears* to work OK now because of some of the things I did, but
it's nothing earth-shaking.
I took Kern's advice and ran an instance of the SD under GDB with the
command line:
run -s -f -d 99 -c /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf
First off, I noticed that the SD was trying to access both the drives in
the changer but because there were no tapes in there at the time it
appeared to hang - waiting on I/O, I assume. Why this happened, I can't
say (but see below). I stopped this run, used mtx to load tapes into
the drives and tried again. This time the SD didn't hang on straight
queries, but crashed (with SIGPIPE) when I tried to do anything such as
get the status.
I *did* notice the comments in the docs about compiling with the
--enable-thread-safe-client option, which I hadn't done before. (Did
this cause the problem?) Anyway, I reconfigured/compiled with this
option, scrubbed the database and tried again. Now it works - so far.
Kern, is the --enable-thread-safe-client *that* important? If so, I
think more emphasis on its importance in the documentation would be useful.
Sorry guys, I know I changed a lot of variables at the same time which
is not too helpful. If anyone has ideas of how to track down possible
bugs I'll be happy to reconfigure and try to duplicate what you expect
to see.
Now I appear to have hardware problems with the tape drives (I/O
errors). I'm investigating and I'll let you know if it appears to be
anything to to do with bacula.
Regards,
Justin.
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