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Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.1 infinite email loop bug??

2010-07-28 14:03:11
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.1 infinite email loop bug??
From: Stephen Thompson <stephen AT seismo.berkeley DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:43:06 -0700
After running for 3 months without this problem, it happened again last 
night.  We are running 5.0.2 at this point.

Stephen



On 04/15/2010 10:25 AM, Stephen Thompson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have just now experienced a possible new bug with bacula 5.0.1.
>
> The symptoms are this:
>
> bacula-sd crashes
> bacula-dir continues to run
> bacula-dir then spews out identical "Intervention needed" emails until
> manually restarted
>
> The first time this happened over a weekend and upon returning I found
> my inbox has about 120,000 bacula emails, all the SAME and of this type:
>
> "15-Apr 10:02 client-fd JobId 100001: Fatal error: backup.c:1048 Network
> send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe"
>
> It happened again just now (second time since upgrading from 3.0.3 to
> 5.0.1) and I managed to stop the director with only a few thousand
> emails going out.
>
> So there are really 2 issues here:
>
> 1)
> Why does the director apparently get stuck in an infinite loop of
> sending the same email message?  Is this a known bug?
>
> 2)
> Regarding the SD, I received one alert of this type, the rest like the
> above:
>
>    "15-Apr 10:02 server-sd: ERROR in lock.c:268 Failed ASSERT:
> dev->blocked()"
>
> A traceback like:
> --
> ptrace: Operation not permitted.
> /var/bacula/work/29091: No such file or directory.
> $1 = 0
> /opt/bacula-5.0.1/scripts/btraceback.gdb:2: Error in sourced command file:
> No symbol "exename" in current context.
> --
>
> And a bactrace like:
> --
> Attempt to dump current JCRs
> JCR=0x19a24888 JobId=100000 name=client_1.2010-04-14_18.02.33_41 JobStatus=l
>           use_count=1
>           JobType=B JobLevel=F
>           sched_time=14-Apr-2010 21:35 start_time=14-Apr-2010 21:35
>           end_time=31-Dec-1969 16:00 wait_time=31-Dec-1969 16:00
>           db=(nil) db_batch=(nil) batch_started=0
> JCR=0x1981b248 JobId=100001 name=client_10.2010-04-14_20.00.15_04
> JobStatus=R
>           use_count=1
>           JobType=B JobLevel=I
>           sched_time=15-Apr-2010 09:15 start_time=15-Apr-2010 09:15
>           end_time=31-Dec-1969 16:00 wait_time=31-Dec-1969 16:00
>           db=(nil) db_batch=(nil) batch_started=0
> Attempt to dump plugins. Hook count=0
> --
>
> Both clients and server seem healthy, except for the SD crash.
> Any ideas?
>
>
> thanks!
> Stephen
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Further info:
>
> My catalog...
>
>       mysql-5.0.77 (64bit) MyISAM
>       210Gb in size
>       1,412,297,215 records in File table
>       note: database built with bacula 2x scripts,
>       upgraded with 3x scripts, then again with 5x scripts
>       (i.e. nothing customized along the way)
>
> My OS&  hardware for bacula DIR+SD server...
>
>       Centos 5.4 (fully patched)
>       8Gb RAM
>       2Gb Swap
>       1Tb EXT3 filesystem on external fiber RAID5 array
>       (dedicated to database, incl. temp files)
>       2 dual-core [AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2220] CPUs
>       StorageTek SL500 Library with 2 LTO3 Drives
>
>
>
>
>
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