On Wednesday 02 November 2005 22:56, Glenn English wrote:
>Debian GNU/Linux sarge AMD64 smp, Quantum DLT VS160, Amanda 2.4.4p3
>
>Input)
>There is a large part of one of the hosts on my network that Amanda
>claims it can't get an estimate of because of "permission denied."
>Amcheck says it can't access any of the directories in the disklist (for
>that partition), but some of the disklist entries show up on the
>collection disk. I can't see a pattern.
>
>Other hosts are fine. Amanda asks for the bits, and they come right
>back.
>
>Output)
>When it does a backup, it collects to the collection disk, but won't
>write to tape. Amstatus shows the disklist entries getting estimates and
>dumping, then waiting to write to tape...then everything just stops.
>Amcleanup followed by Amflush copies the collection disk backups to
>tape, and Amverify says they're fine.
>
>
>Both these started a couple weeks ago when (IIRC) I killed processes
>trying to stop a backup.
>
>I don't understand enough of how Amanda works to even make a guess why
>either of these things might be happening. The partition that gives
>trouble is a 60GB disk disk mounted for a big project in a user's
>directory. But I can't think of anything out of the ordinary about the
>tape write problem.
>
>I've rebooted (the server and the client) and reinstalled (the client)
>and remounted and examined permissions, none of which made any
>difference at all.
>
>Any thoughts?

Have you looked around in /var/lock?  There might be some leftovers in
there.

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