This (fingers crossed) may have been fixed with 5.2.9 which we upgraded
to last week. It hasn't quite been long enough for me to be convinced
the problem won't return, but I'm hopeful.
Stephen
On 5/24/12 7:08 AM, Stephen Thompson wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> Anyone run into this error before?
>
> We hadn't until we upgraded our bacula server from Centos 5.8 to Redhat
> 6.2, after which we of course had to recompile bacula. However, we used
> the same source, version, and options, the exception being that we added
> readline for improved bconsole functionality.
>
> Now every couple of days we have jobs error out like this:
>
>
> 21-May 20:04 SD JobId 236699: Fatal error: askdir.c:339 NULL Volume
> name. This shouldn't happen!!!
>
>
> 21-May 22:02 DIR JobId 236711: Fatal error: Catalog error updating Media
> record. sql_update.c:411 Update failed: affected_rows=0 for UPDATE Media
> SET
> VolJobs=0,VolFiles=0,VolBlocks=0,VolBytes=0,VolMounts=0,VolErrors=0,VolWrites=0,MaxVolBytes=0,VolStatus='',Slot=0,InChanger=0,VolReadTime=0,VolWriteTime=0,VolParts=0,LabelType=0,StorageId=0,PoolId=0,VolRetention=0,VolUseDuration=0,MaxVolJobs=0,MaxVolFiles=0,Enabled=0,LocationId=0,ScratchPoolId=0,RecyclePoolId=0,RecycleCount=0,Recycle=0,ActionOnPurge=0
> WHERE VolumeName=''
>
>
> 23-May 22:02 SD JobId 237069: Fatal error: askdir.c:339 NULL Volume
> name. This shouldn't happen!!!
>
>
> There is nothing new or strange about our volumes, nothing in DB with
> null values.
>
> My only idea, which is sheer speculation is that we have in the past had
> some strange behaviours around tape contention, like a set of jobs
> running with a storage daemon with two drives, and a job being assigned
> to one drive will want the tape that is in use by another job on the
> other drive. That happened pretty rarely, though I was wondering if
> this might perhaps be the new outcome of that contention. Again, sheer
> speculation as I have nothing but the errors above to go on at the moment.
>
>
> thanks!
> Stephen
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