Scott Ruckh wrote: > I am running CentOS 4.5 x64 with self compiled kernel 2.6.13.4. I have > installed the latest bacula 2.2.4 Director, Client, and Storage daemon on > this server. > > Bacula run flawlessly most of the time. > > Unfortunately when I run VMWare Workstation and have a virtual machine > running, Bacula crashes the entire system. I am running the latest > version of the 5.x series of VMWare. I am also running fluxbox as my > Window Manager, although I don't think that has anything to do with the > problem. > > This problem has existed with all versions of Bacula starting with > 1.3.8.11 which is the first version I installed. > > My backups are to an external USB disk connected to the Host OS. > > The virtual machine is not configured with USB port because at one time I > thought there might be contention between the Physical USB disk and the > USB port configured with the Virtual Machine. > > All virtual machines and host system work fine when bacula backups are not > running. > > I have tested this with all sorts of guest Virtual Machines and the > results are the same; bacula will crash (completely unusable) the host > machine. The only recovery method it to reboot the server. >
All bacula daemons are running in user mode and only the FD is running as root. A hard lock like this means something is amiss at the kernel mode level. You could try backing up to a directory on SCSI/SATA/IDE disk as a test. If all works as expected when backing up to the non-USB drive, then maybe something is wrong in the way USB is being virtualized/configured. > Is anyone else successfully running a similar environment? As bacula is > the only program that appears to cause the problem I am making an > assumption it is a problem with bacula. > > If anyone has this type of environment working successfully I would like > to hear about it. > > Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
