Scott Ruckh wrote: >> On 9/19/07 10:22 AM, "Scott Ruckh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >>> >>> 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. >> > > I am now running bacula 2.2.6 built from source RPMs. Now I had a crash > with no VMware running. I did not even have an Xsession running. This is > two times in two weeks where the system crashes while bacula is running.
Has VMware been running at all during those two weeks? Are you sure it is a crash and not a power off? If so, how are you reaching that conclusion? > The crash completely shuts the machine off. It is not just in a hung state. > > There is really nothing in the system logs except that the database backup > job that runs before the backup is kicked off and is run successfully. > After that, there is nothing in the logs. > > This is the first time this has happened when a VmWare guest OS was not > running. > > Prior to the past two weeks, backups were running fine for about 29 days. > This is a very random as far a when the crash occurs, but constant > problem. > > I don't believe I am running an abnormal server configuration, but this > Hard crash is very annoying. > > Anyone have anymore hints or suggestions to try? My first thoughts are: the problem is not related to VMware but seems to be exacerbated by running it. Here is what I'd be checking is this was my machine: Is the power supply faulty? Is it on a UPS? -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
