Arno Lehmann said:

> 18.02.2009 09:36, Ralf Gross wrote:
>> Ralf Gross said:
>>> lately I've seen that verify jobs that have differences just doesn't
>>> finish.
>>>
>>> bacula 2.4.4-b1, psql
>>>
>>> *st dir
>>>
>>> ...
>>> This is starting to be annoying because the volumes are then locked
>>> until
>>> I cancel thee job.
>>
>>
>> 24h later I tried to cancel the still running and blocking verify job.
>>
>> Running Jobs:
>>  JobId Level   Name                       Status
>> =====================================================================>
>> 9644 VolumeT  VerifyVU0EM003.2009-02-17_07.06.00.27 has been canceled
>>   9652 Full    VU0EM003-FBR.2009-02-17_13.15.54.51 is running
>>   9661 Increme  VU0EM003.2009-02-18_00.06.00.32 is waiting on max Client
>> jobs
>>   9671 VolumeT  VerifyVU0EM003.2009-02-18_07.06.00.58 is waiting on max
>> Client jobs
>> ===>
>>
>> *cancel jobid=9644
>> 2001 Job VerifyVU0EM003.2009-02-17_07.06.00.27 marked to be canceled.
>>
>>
>>
>> And then the console hangs and just doesn't return to the prompt.
>>
>> It seems that the only way to get thing going again is to restart the
>> dir
>> or maybe the fd where the verify job is running. But there is an other
>> job
>> with several TB to backup running right now.
>>
>> Any idea how to resolve this deadlock?
>
> Not really... I'd suggest to create some debug output (preferrably use
> the btraceback script) and see if you can get the developers
> interested in this.
>
> Then you could try killing just the thread / LWP that is stuck - but I
> don't know if this could work. I doubt it, but if it's the only chance
> I'd rather do that soon, so you don't lose too much time with the
> other, big job you might have to re-run.


The problem is that the other job already has backed up 5,5 TB which is
about half the amount of data.

But I see that the fd version on the client that runs the verify job is
2.2.8. I'll update to 2.4.4 after the backup job has finished.

Ralf



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