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From: Alessandro Bianchi <alex AT skynet DOT it>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Cc: bill.damage AT yahoo DOT com
Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 12:50:14
Subject: Re: Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15

Il 14/07/2011 13:29, bacula-users-request AT lists.sourceforge DOT net ha scritto:

Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config, 
do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost 
definitely not a "bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem" ;-)

What happens is if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd 
is running as the user "bacula". If I try anything with touches the sd, say in 
bconsole even a "status all", the display stops at the first "Connecting to 
Storage daemon..." message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from 
root with "bacula-sd -f -v" in another console all is well. There's nothing in 
any logs I can see. Whats gives please? Thanks.

Hi

I faced a very similar problem after upgrading from F14 to F15

I had the SD hanging on every operation

I tracked it to a permission problem.

It seems to have some sort of trouble while dropping privileges.

I "fixed" it editing the /etc/syscongif/bacula-sd file and setting it like follows:

SD_USER=root
SD_GROUP=bacula

I don't like having the SD running as root so before doing that I worked on permissions on the bacula SD storage area (I'm using the File storage) with no luck.

Hope this points you in some useful direction.

Besta regards

Alessandro Bianchi