On Monday 14 December 2009 09:27:40 Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> On 12/09/2009 12:11 AM, Janusz Syrytczyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've upgraded to 3.0.3 from 3.0.2 a while ago and I'm facing serious
> > problems with bacula-dir stability.
> >
> > Just after its start, Director is able to perform any request I have
> > (perform a backup, restore, reload etc.). But once I've got the task
> > done, Director stops listening me - the second job is not starting when
> > requested. Then bconsole stops, I have to exit ctrl+c, but reissuing
> > bconsle and here typing status dir gives that the backup is running.
> >
> > The problem is that the backup is not running. Director keeps it almost
> > fully silent. When I try to reload through bconsole, I'm experiencing
> > Director going like zombie - cannot connect. Debugging gives only this:
> >
> > atom-dir: bnet.c:670-0 who=client host=192.168.1.150 port=36131
> >
> > What's interesting, when I leave the Director alone it works OK, it
> > schedules backups and performs them. I had previously suspected that
> > something is wrong with scheduler as on before this troubleshooting I
> > couldn't even get the Director scheduling, but since few days it goes
> > right.
> >
> > This is the same issue as the guy here, but he hasn't found a clue:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT
> > net/msg38279.h
> >tml
> >
> > I've just moved backups and database, recompiled Bacula, recreated the
> > database and started backups but the same history goes. What this could
> > be, anyone?
>
> Don't know if it's your case.
>
> We have same trouble here with dir hanging after having run the first job.
> I've restart it with -d100 just to check what's happen.
> In the meantime, on the bacula server (which has been upgraded from
> opensuse 11.1 to 11.2 ) I have found that postfix is throttling ... (
> missing relay.db file in /etc/postfix : issue a postmap relay and restart
> postfix ) After that all emails are working.
>
> As inside my dir-config message bsmtp are connected to the internal
> postfix, bsmtp was hanging ! And perharps bacula-dir too.
>
> I've now running three scheduled jobs, and bacula-dir have done it's jobs.
>
> What I suspect is : there's no bsmtp timeout ( if it could not connect it
> return, but if it connect and nothing goes right in postfix (the
> throttling case) it wait indefinitely and also the director ....
>
> I will leave this configuration running 2 to 3 days just to be sure it was
> that.
>
> In the meantime, if you can check on your side, if you get some trouble
> with bstmp to infirm or confirm.
>
True, I've verified this too.
bsmtp goes zombie and bacula-dir waits on it. Solution is to usea another app
for sending email or drop email notifications at all.
I wonder if its not a candidate to bug report?
Thanks,
JS
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