On Monday 24 July 2006 16:00, Kevin Till wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Oh oh folks:
>>
>> I put 2.5.1b1-20060723 in on the server (this machine) yesterday,
>> got a near total failure last night.
>
>Hi Gene,
>
>o when you run amcheck, did it pass?
>
>o did the amandad on the client respond at all? Check if there
> /tmp/amanda/amandad*.debug file created?
>
>o If so, any error in that file?
>
>o are you using bsd (the default) as the auth?
>
>o Try to add "server_args             = -auth=bsd amdump" to the
> xinetd/amanda defintion. More detail info on docs/howto-auth.txt
>
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Is this thread to be allowed to die?  It was a very real problem for me.  
I can reinstall this latest snapshot to verify its broken-ness I 
suppose...  Cleanup seems to be minimal, kill all the gtars on the 
client & reinstall 2.5.0-20060424, but it sure mucks up the scheduling 
for a few days.  FWIW, the client is still running 2.5.1b1-20060722, 
and worked just fine last night.  This is the one with the memory leak?  
No, thats the one that fixed it.

So it blows up if the server is 2.5.1b1-20060723, and the client is 
2.5.1b1-20060722 in this case.

>From the 723 ChangeLog:
2006-07-23  Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
        * client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c: Fix bug found by splint.
        * client-src/sendsize.c: Fix bug found by splint.

So what did this break?  It broke both machines, although it only left a 
gtar per DLE running on the client box, but not on the server box.  And 
it was the server box that was running 0723.

Me puzzled...  The canary died.

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