Re: [Bacula-users] Two installation problems, btape & bacula-fd

A few days ago John Descher responded to my previous message by confirming that Bacula cannot use an address that is not an IP address or domain name, and so cannot have a host or client identified by a dynamic IP address. John: I appreciate your response, but you answered my last question. The first one was the show stopper, and I'm still wrestling with that.

To recap, after I followed your advice about using IP addresses I was able to run the example job described in "A Brief Tutorial" (Chapter 9 of the Bacula manual), but it failed with the error:

         (gedit:15893): WARNING **: Failed to create file '/root/.gnome2/gedit/gedit-print-settings.J2LQGU': No such file or directory

I revisited this problem this morning to see if I could get any farther on my own. I looked for a reference to /root/.gnome2/gedit (or any reference to the string 'gedit') in Bacula's conf files, but found none. For lack of a better approach, I created that directory myself, with owner root, group bacula, both having "create and delete files" permission. Then I started bconsole and tried to run the sample job again.

The job immediately said "you have messages." When I displayed them I got a large number of error messages (enough to overflow the shell's buffer). All of them said:

        03-Sep 10:18 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 6: Error: message.c:590 fopen /var/lib/bacula/log failed: ERR=Permission denied

After the last error message, Bacula tried to start the sample job, and said:

        03-Sep 10:19 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 7: No prior Full backup Job record found.
        03-Sep 10:19 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 7: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
        *
        03-Sep 10:19 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 7: Start Backup JobId 7, Job=Client1.2008-09-03_10.19.03
        03-Sep 10:19 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 7: Using Device "FileStorage"

After a delay of a minute or somewhat less, bconsole terminated. When I tried to restart it I found that the director had terminated too.

The messages about /var/lib/bacula/log particularly puzzle me. I was running bconsole and all of the daemons through sudo (with root privileges), so I don't see how bacula could be denied permission to access anything.

I got inconsistent results trying to reproduce this problem. The next time I tried it I didn't get the messages about /var/lib/bacula/log, and bconsole and the directory didn't terminate, but I didn't get a backup, either -- or any messages explaining why.

This all seems to murky to expect an immediate solution, but I hope you can make another suggestion that will help me move forward.

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