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[BackupPC-users] problems after upgrade to Fedora 17

2012-06-01 10:41:56
Subject: [BackupPC-users] problems after upgrade to Fedora 17
From: George Avrunin <avrunin AT math.umass DOT edu>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:23:49 -0400
I use this machine to backup itself and a couple of other Fedora machines
(still at F16 and F15) to an external USB disk that is mounted
under /scratch, with the BackupPC directory sym-linked to /var/lib/BackupPC.
Wednesday, I upgraded from F16 to F17 using preupgrade with only one glitch
(the installation hung up installing Steel Bank Common Lisp, which seems to
have happened to a number of other people, but it went through fine when I
restarted it).  

There were a couple of minor selinux issues with contexts that have been
fixed with restorecon.  But the BackupPC web interface doesn't seem to be
able to get information about the backups.  So, for instance, it shows whether
any backups are running and some of the status information (like the
size of the pool), but it claims that none of the hosts have any backups and
it says the pool contains 0 files.  However, I was able to use the web
interface to initiate a full backup of one host and all the log information
indicates that completed successfully (with 847583 files, 117689557865 bytes,
0 xferErrs).  Moreover, although (after a restorecon suggested by sealert), I
can read the logs (e.g., /var/log/BackupPC/LOG and the older ones) from the
web interface, when I go to the page for a specific host and try to read the
LOG file for this host (by clicking in the panel in the upper left), it tells
me "Can't open log file". The backuppc user can read the file, however.

I'm not seeing any audit entries when this happens (and I've tried running
with selinux set to permissive and it doesn't make any difference).  The file
ownership and permissions (up to /var/lib/BackupPC) seem ok to me.  And
backups completed successfully the morning of the day I did the upgrade
(which I checked before doing the upgrade ;-) ).  Moreover, the scheduled
backups seemed to run just fine last night.

The only things I'm seeing in the httpd logs are the well-known "Use of
qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated ..." lines.  

Does anyone have any suggestions about what else to look at to sort this out?

Thanks,

  George

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