On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

apache, apache2, and mrtg (2 machines). I don't think those have
anything to do with it.

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Glenn English
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