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Re: [BackupPC-users] Red Hat es5.3 - Starting on 9/9/09 - dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib

2009-10-07 01:44:47
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Red Hat es5.3 - Starting on 9/9/09 - dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
From: Kent Behrends <kent.maillist AT bci DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:38:56 -0700
On Oct 6, 2009, at 20:50, Steve Ling wrote:

> Since you are ok with hints and guesses :)
>
> The link below discusses an issue with a different application but  
> using
> the same version of Compress::Zlib 1.42-1.fc6 and the same symptom
> Compress::Zlib not found. Workaround is to force reinstall of
> Scalar::Util.
>
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/843943.html

There is no Red Hat Scalar::Util rpm, no I tried the cpan route.

cpan fails:

cpan> install Scalar::Util
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/ 
perl5/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm line 30.
Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata
Running install for module Scalar::Util
Running make for G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/ 
perl5/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm line 30.
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/lib/ 
perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5721.

>
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:48 -0700, Kent Behrends wrote:
>> On Oct 6, 2009, at 09:12, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> Kent Behrends wrote:
>>>> BackupPC was running fine for months, until 2009-09-09:
>>>>
>>>> 2009-09-07 20:00:51 full backup started for directory /home  
>>>> (baseline
>>>> backup #93)
>>>> 2009-09-07 20:40:34 full backup 94 complete, 37541 files,  
>>>> 65594172853
>>>> bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
>>>> 2009-09-07 20:40:34 removing full backup 68
>>>> 2009-09-08 20:00:52 incr backup started back to 2009-09-07 20:00:51
>>>> (backup #94) for directory /home
>>>> 2009-09-08 20:01:56 incr backup 95 complete, 121 files, 86785025
>>>> bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
>>>> 2009-09-08 20:01:56 removing incr backup 88
>>>> 2009-09-09 20:00:42 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-09-09 21:00:02 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-09-09 22:00:02 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat _may_ have had a "yum update" about that time, so I checked
>>>> the perl modules:
>>>>
>>>> $ yum list all | grep -i zlib
>>>> perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64   1.42-1.fc6        installed
>>>> perl-IO-Zlib.noarch         1.04-4.2.1        installed
>>>>
>>>> I reinstalled them for fun - no change. BackupPC is still logging:
>>>>
>>>> 2009-10-06 03:00:01 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-10-06 04:00:02 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-10-06 08:02:02 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-10-06 08:05:32 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>> 2009-10-06 08:14:07 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>>>>
>>>> This is not happening on my debian installs, but this is my only
>>>> redhat es5 install.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any ideas, hints, or guesses of what else I can try?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you completely up to date on that system?  I thought Redhat had
>>> released 5.4.
>>
>> I believe I am current. Here is the yum updates:
>>
>> [kent@sic ~]$ sudo yum repolist
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
>> repo id                                  repo
>> name                                                        status
>> rhel-x86_64-server-5                     Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.
>> 5 for 64-bit x86_64)                enabled: 8,074
>> rhel-x86_64-server-productivity-5        RHEL Optional Productivity
>> Apps (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64)         enabled: 1,195
>> rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-5       RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for
>> 64-bit x86_64)                      enabled:   575
>> rhel-x86_64-server-vt-5                  RHEL Virtualization (v. 5  
>> for
>> 64-bit x86_64)                     enabled:   240
>> rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5           Red Hat Network Tools for
>> RHEL Server (v.5 64-bit x86_64)        enabled:   417
>> repolist: 10,501
>>
>> [kent@sic ~]$ sudo yum update
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
>> Skipping security plugin, no data
>> Setting up Update Process
>> No Packages marked for Update
>>
>>
>>
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