It would appear that on the hosts that have this problem, there was no file
called /etc/amandates that was complained about in the debug output in
/tmp/amanda .

I have touched blank files with the proper permissions which should hopefully
be used now to fix this issue.

--
 Mark Hennessy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Mark Hennessy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:42 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Strange problem with some hosts after upgrading from 2.4.4p4
> 
> I have just upgraded my hosts' amanda clients from 2.4.4p4 to 
> 2.5.1p2, and I
> have a weird problem where most of my clients are no longer providing
> results, instead I get for each of them a line resembling this:
> ...
>   host1        da0s1a     lev 0  FAILED [missing result for 
> da0s1a in host1
> response]
> ...
> host1 da0s1a   0 FAILED --------------------------------------------
> ...
> 
> amcheck shows 0 errors when I run a scan and it purports to 
> find all of the
> hosts and file systems.
> 
> Where should I look for why this may have happened?
> 
> --
>  Mark Hennessy
> 
>