Amanda-Users

trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 13:34:22
Subject: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge
From: "James D. Freels" <freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:25:26 -0500
Hello folks !  I have been using AMANDA now for several years and find it to be a superb backup tool.  I just converted one of my AMANDA backup servers (fea5) from an Alpha 64-bit machine running Debian/Sarge to a new AMD64 64-bit machine also running Debian/Sarge.  When writing to the tape using the /usr/lib/amanda/taper component of the amanda-server package in 64-bit mode, the machine fails, and eventually hangs to the point of being unusable.  However, if I issue the same commands in the chroot 32-bit mode environment, it works fine.  Right now, I basically have to run the server in 32-bit mode and the client in 64-bit mode.  I would much prefer running the entire system cleanly in 64-bit mode.  I am including the taper error messages here for reference.  Has anyone else experienced this problem ?  If so how can it be corrected ?  I have already issued a bug report to the Debian developers, but I have not obtained a solution and it has been several days
Partial list of the error messages (short enough to be able to send this e-mail to this mailing list):

Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'taper', page ffff810002642348)
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: flags:0x010000000000000c mapping:ffff8100080ec238 mapcount:2 count:0
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Backtrace:
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff80157613>{bad_page+99} <ffffffff80157fc5>{free_hot_cold_page+101}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8015f0c7>{__page_cache_release+151} <ffffffff80354228>{sgl_unmap_user_pages+120}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8034fb3b>{release_buffering+27} <ffffffff803501f1>{st_write+1697}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff80176ec6>{vfs_write+198} <ffffffff80177023>{sys_write+83}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8010d77a>{system_call+126}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'taper', page ffff8100026131e8)
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: flags:0x010000000000000c mapping:ffff8100080ec238 mapcount:2 count:0
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Backtrace:
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff80157613>{bad_page+99} <ffffffff80157fc5>{free_hot_cold_page+101}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8015f0c7>{__page_cache_release+151} <ffffffff80354228>{sgl_unmap_user_pages+120}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8034fb3b>{release_buffering+27} <ffffffff803501f1>{st_write+1697}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff80176ec6>{vfs_write+198} <ffffffff80177023>{sys_write+83}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel:        <ffffffff8010d77a>{system_call+126}
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'taper', page ffff8100026c87a0)
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: flags:0x010000000000000c mapping:ffff8100080ec238 mapcount:2 count:0
Nov  7 00:12:48 fea8 kernel: Backtrace:


-- 
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov