On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:29:49AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Kenneth Kalan <kgk AT northwestern DOT edu> writes:
> 
> > I've poke around the list and didn't find this problem there.  I have
> > a RHEL 4 box with two dual core Xeon's and 16 Gig's of ram.  Naturally
> > it's running x86_64 of Red Hat.  It has the stock RH version of
> > amanda, amanda-2.4.4p3-1 and amanda-client-2.4.4p3-1.  This is a
> > client box.
> >
> > The server is a 32bit box running the same versions (along with
> > amanda-server-2.4.4p3-1).
> >
> > I cannot get the 64 bit box to backup.  When I run amcheck it' replies
> > with selfcheck request time out.  Tried turning off the firewall, but
> > no help. I install my boxes the same way, a script puts the server
> > info into /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts as well as putting the amanda
> > file into xinetd.d.  This works fine on all the 32 bit boxes, even
> > ones configured after the 64 bit box.
> 
> My experience is with NetBSD rather than RH, but I've used 64-bit
> machines with no problems.  One setup has a i386 server with multiple
> clients, including sparc64 and works with krb4 auth.  Another has a
> sparc64 server and i386 and sparc clients.  So it's pretty unlikely
> there are serious 64-bit bugs in the code.  Of course you could be
> having lib/lib64 confusion.
> 
> I'd run ldd on the amandad binary and see if it links ok.
> 

Agreed.
Does RH supply a real 64 bit compiled version.  If not, i.e. it is
a 32 bit version, it could be you have all the correct libaries in
of the 64 bit variety but need to add some of the 32 bit ones.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)