>>>>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:53:37 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
> I'm running Bacula 5.2.5, with Director, catalog and a disk SD on a
> Solaris 10u9 machine, and a second SD (LTO4 tape) on a Gentoo Linux box.
>  Bacula was compiled using gcc (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3) on the Linux
> box and with Sun Studio 12.2 opn the Solaris box.
> 
> Recently I've started experiencing errors in which, after a number of
> successful connections, Director connection authentication begins
> repeatedly failing.
> 
> Example:
> 
> babylon4:root:/opt/bacula/etc:31 # bconsole
> Connecting to Director babylon4:9101
> Director authorization problem.
> Most likely the passwords do not agree.
> If you are using TLS, there may have been a certificate validation error
> during the TLS handshake.
> Please see
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION003760000000000000000
> for help.
> 
> From working/babylon4-dir.conmsg:
> 
> 05-Mar 21:45 babylon4-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:415 Unable to
> authenticate console "*UserAgent*" at client:10.24.32.10:36131.
> 05-Mar 21:45 babylon4-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:415 Unable to
> authenticate console "*UserAgent*" at client:10.24.32.14:36131.
> 05-Mar 21:45 babylon4-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:415 Unable to
> authenticate console "*UserAgent*" at client:10.24.32.14:36131.
> 
> 
> After starting the Director, all connections will succeed initially.
> All passwords are known good.  As a general rule, once one connection
> attempt fails, all subsequent connection attempts will also fail.
> Connections are more likely to fail if one or more jobs is running at
> the time.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this or similar behavior?

Not on FreeBSD.

Try it with -d 100 on both bconsole and bacula-dir (connect when bacula-dir is
idle so the connection messages aren't mixed with other job messages)?

__Martin

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