Dan Langille wrote: > 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? > An X windows session nor a VMware instance was run between the last two crashes. > Are you sure it is a crash and not a power off? If so, how are you > reaching that conclusion? > The computer is connected to UPS and no other components were shut off. I have witnessed this crash while running a manual backup. The system only crashes when bacula is running. I have not come to any conclusions to what might cause the crash, for example if it is a specific directory, specific file, specific client, etc. Only that a bacula job has been kicked off every time before the system crashes. > >> 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? > I don't think it is the power supply. Running bacula causes the crash. The machine only crashes when bacula is involved. This machine does not do 24x7 backups. Full backups, for 3 clients, take at most 6 hours. Incremental backups for these same 3 clients takes about 20 minutes. Bacula may not be the root cause of the problem, but it is definitely indirectly the cause of the problem. > Is it on a UPS? > Yes. > >
I may have to try upgrading the kernel, but that would not be a trivial task in the servers current configuration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
