On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>I committed a fix, thank for finding the bug.
>
>CHECK-DEVICE is correct, properties are sent send to the 'support'
>application command because they are not needed, the script just log the
>default value.
>
>Jean-Louis
>
>Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> OK, after some logfile exchange off-list, I think we're onto something
>> here.  The planner examines all DLEs to decide which incremental to
>> promote, and selects coyote:/root.  It finishes its loop, and then
>> goes to attempt to promote that dump:
>>
>> 2792     if(dp_promote) {
>> 2793         one_est_t *level0_est = est_for_level(dp, 0);
>> 2794         dp = dp_promote;
>>
>> Sadly, dp is NULL on line 2793.  The fix is to use dp_promote instead
>> of dp.  Jean-Louis, do you agree?  If so, please commit (I'm running
>> off for the evening).
>>
>> Also, Jean-Louis, I'm leaving the chasing-down of the CHECK-DEVICE
>> question to you.
>>
>> Gene: thanks for working so hard on this, and my apologies if I seemed
>> short with you.  In general, when you see something go wrong with
>> Amanda, it's probably best to freeze everything and get to the bottom
>> of it immediately.
>>
>> Dustin

Not so sure about this backup, started at 01:45, it is still running at 5:01 
am, apparently getting stuck waiting for the last 4kb of a dle.  But it will 
eventually get it and go on.  My algorithm setting is largest first. 
amstatus's extra output lines aren't really a help when scrolling back to see 
where its actually at.
It gets here fairly quickly:

coyote:/root                  2   1330791k dumping  1322112k ( 99.35%) 
(4:57:50)
And it still reads the same at 5:20am.  And 26 dle's yet to go out of thirty.

Now there are no tar's running, and gzip is idling at 0 cpu, and will 
apparently be stuck there till something times out. From amanda.conf:
[root@coyote /]# grep dtimeout /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf
dtimeout 2800           # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.

But amstatus isn't reporting any aborts.  Of those 3 done 'finished'
[root@coyote log]# amstatus Daily|grep coyote|grep finished
coyote:/home                  0   2217790k finished (4:36:48)
coyote:/usr/pix               0   2158180k finished (4:58:56)
coyote:/usr/src               0   3139051k finished (3:49:24)

So something is amiss. However it is progressing, albeit slowly.  I'm going 
back to bed.  Need more zz's.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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