In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My plan at this point: > 1) Upgrading to RELENG_6_1 tonight > 2) See if the problem repeats this Saturday > 3) If it does, grab another backtrace and put it out on freebsd-hackers@ > to see if anyone has any suggestions.
Followup posting. I upgraded the system to FreeBSD 6.1p5. There were some other circumstances that interfered with getting any reasonable data from the system, so it took a little longer than I expected to do the remaining steps. However, it occurred to me that the log rotation occurs at about the same time this freeze would occur. This involves sending Bacula a HUP signal. I moved the log rotation to later in the day (after the jobs are finished) and the whole set of backups ran without a hitch. It would appear as if sending bacula-dir a HUP signal in the middle of a backup causes this problem. Note that -HUPping the director while it is idle doesn't seem to cause any trouble. Note also that I experimented a bit, and hupping doesn't seem to cause the problem all the time. Can anyone verify this on another platform? I want to set up some test scenarios here, but I'm dogged for time, and it may be a while before I can do any more serious work on this issue. On a specific note: changing the time that logs rotate is only a workaround for us, and one with a dubious future. We're running backups more and more frequently, and a lot of them run rather dynamically (using reschedule on error and the like) so it's going to get increasingly more difficult to find a time when I can be sure that no backup is running. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
