On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:17:14PM +0100, Tony Howat wrote:
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> I have an existing amanda 2.4.2p1 installation running on SuSE Linux, 
> with Linux clients. I have a need to add some solaris systems to the 
> backups, and so I have built 2.4.2p1 using gcc 2.95.3.
> 
> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=sys --without-server
> 
> The build works fine, and the binaries seem fine. However, when I run 
> amcheck on the backup server, it attempts to contact the solaris client. 
> inetd does its stuff, and then amanda crashes at the client end. This 
> appears in my /var/adm/messages :
> 
> Apr 15 12:47:07 nms2 inetd[190]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] 
> /usr/local/libexec/amandad: Segmentation Fault - core dumped

Don't know at this point if it is an amanda bug or not.  However, if it
is a defect, good chance it has been repaired since 2.4.2.  A build of
a newer client "should" work fine with the older server.


> Sticking the core through gdb and doing a backtrace doesn't help much, 
> the executable appears to lack symbol names. The /tmp/amanda/debug lists:
> 
...
> 
> How can I simply enable debug symbols on the output code, and possibly 
> increase the debug tracing?

On the client build, you should be able to edit the makefiles
so that the CFLAGS parameter DOES NOT include '-O' optimize option
and DOES include the '-g' debug info option.

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