Jen-Louis,

OK.  We can either downgrade tar or upgrade AMANDA on the AIX client.

on the debian server , amadmin config version gives

LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE

on all the clients, including the AIX clients, it shows the same for
LOCKING=

I would prefer not to upgrade AMANDA to 2.6.0p1 since it has not hit the
debian/unstable tree yet, but we could if necessary. What advantage
would running this new version give us in this situation ?

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:53 -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> James,
> 
> You need amanda 2.5.1p3 or newer if you have gnutar >= 1.16
> 
> For the "could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number" problem:
> What is looking amanda choose to use? Look for LOCKING= in  'amadmin 
> config version' output.
> Can you upgrade your client to 2.6.0p1?
> 
> Jean-Louis
> 
> Freels, James D. wrote:
> > We have a linux amanda server that is working fine for linux boxes
> > connected as clients.  However, we are trying to connect two additional
> > IBM AIX clients to this server, and having difficulty.  One AIX client
> > is at version 5.2 of AIX, while the second is at version 5.3 of AIX.
> > Both AIX clients are running Amanda 2.4.2p2 and gnutar 1.20 (yes, the
> > new version, freshly installed).
> >
> > The linux amanda server is running debian/stable/etch on an amd64 and
> > services several debian/stable/etch clients and ubuntu/hardy-8.04
> > clients.  The server is running amanda 2.5.1p3-2.
> >
> > We have the system set up as best as possible with the amcheck yielding
> > no error messages.   However, when we run the amdump on the AIX clients
> > (any of the filesystems) we get a set of error message on the printed
> > output typical as follows:
> >
> > aixclient  hd3      lev 0  FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup]
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> >
> > /--  aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup]
> > sendbackup: start [aixclient:hd3 level 0]
> > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/gtar
> > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gtar -f... -
> > sendbackup: info end
> > | gtar: ./.X11-unix/X0: socket ignored
> > | Total bytes written: 1730560 (1.7MiB, 830KiB/s)
> > ??sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number
> > ? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup]
> > \--------
> >
> > In trying to get this working, we have left the /etc/amandates file on
> > the AIX client completely unprotected 
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx   1 amanda   system         1216 May 19 15:43 /etc/amandates
> >
> > We are puzzled as to how to fix this problem and would appreciate any
> > and all helpful information.
> >
> >
> > James D. Freels, Ph.D.
> > Senior Research Staff
> > High Flux Isotope Reactor
> > Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> > http://www.comsol.com/academic/papers/1780
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> 
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Senior Research Staff
High Flux Isotope Reactor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.comsol.com/academic/papers/1780