Re: Got a bug, what can I do?
2004-11-17 16:08:36
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>I have found what I believe is a bug in amrestore, as it is used for
>an amverify run.
>
>Last night I set everything up for generating what should be a
>pristine vtape. When I awoke, amrestore was hung on the last file
> of the archive, and / was full.
>
>I found many gigabytes of files from all the aborted runs of
> amverify that had failed previously still sitting in /tmp/amanda.
> Cleaning that out brought my 30GB / partition back to the 9% used
> position it normally has maintained for quite a while.
>
>Then I fired upo a fresh run of "amverify Daily 1 1" since that was
>the vtape written last night. This was about 11 AM. Its still
>going, the shell says it has looked at the last file written this
>morning:
>Checked coyote._usr_man.20041117.1
>
>There is an "info" file in the parent Dailys directory, just a few
>bytes long saying "position 53", that is being touched/updated at
>minute or less intervals. That "data" directory pointers contents
> do NOT have a 53rd file, the 52nd file group is:
>
>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 10 Nov 17 03:02 00052-TAPEEND
>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 Nov 17 03:02 00052.TAPEEND
>
>So obviously amrestore has gone off to lala land for an extended
>vacation, not even seeing the disk full error in its quest to fill
>up /tmp to the bursting point. Its at 35% filled and climbing so
> I'm doing a ctl-c on the shell that started it.
>
>Humm, THIS time, a ctl-c not only gave me the Aborted message, and a
>slight pause, it also did a super good job of cleaning up after
>itself, / is now reported to be only 6% filled!
>
>I'm now building the 20041116 snapshot of 2.4.5b1. If still troubled
>I'll back up a snapshot at a time till it works again and report
>back.
I didn't test the 1116 snapshot after reading the ChangeLog, but
re-installed the 2.4.5b1-20041110 snapshot, and the amrestore problem
is gone. This goes to prove the when you run bleeding edge stuff
marked as beta, you are going to bleed occasionally.
Jean-Louis has been notified.
--
Cheers, Gene
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