Run bconsole with -d100 on the command line. That should produce debug output that will help you see what is happening with the authentication. You can also stop the Director and manually restart it with -d100 to get the Director's idea of what is going on.
Best regards, Kern On 05/24/2016 04:37 PM, dirk@roeder.rocks wrote: > Hello together, > we have a running bacula instance working fine for months. > Since a few days we face multiple times per day the issue, that the > bconsole connection to director is failing. > > We did not change the configuration nor restart any of the bacula > daemons. After a while (Between minutes and hours) the connection > bconsole to director works fine again. > > The call looks like this: > > root@backupHost:~# bconsole > Connecting to Director 127.0.0.1:9101 > > [...] Waiting some minutes > > Director authorization problem. > Most likely the passwords do not agree. > If you are using TLS, there may have been a certificate validation error > during the TLS handshake. > Please see > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION003760000000000000000 > for help. > > > I have read the suggestion. Passwords are correct, without changing > anything bconsole can connect after a few tries. > > Unfortunately what discourages is the missing log informations. > The only thing I find in the logs is this line > 24-May 12:26 backupHost-sd: ERROR in dircmd.c:155 Connection request > from client failed. > which is logged by the storage daemon. I know from reading the MySQL > Database and stracing the processes, that backup jobs are running in the > time, while I cannot connect. The Max parallel Job Limit is not hit, > normally there are 5 jobs running, the limit is 20. > > We are running bacula 5.2.6 on Debian 8.3 > > Any suggestions what could cause this or how I may locate the root cause > of this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Kind Regards > Dirk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users