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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.6 crashes with unexpected mta reply...?

2013-11-28 18:17:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.6 crashes with unexpected mta reply...?
From: Rudolph Bott <r AT bott DOT im>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:13:47 +0100
Hi Martin,

Am 28.11.2013 19:53, schrieb Martin Simmons:
>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:09:40 +0100, Rudolph Bott said:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> our bacula director crashes from time to time (running some 420 jobs per 
>> night) and at some point we started running the director from daemontools in 
>> foreground, with some level of debugging (-d 50) enabled.
>>
>> Last night it crashed with the following information:
>>
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:15.607948500 Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation 
>> violation
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:15.607950500 Kaboom! bacula-dir, SOME.HOST.NAME got signal 
>> 11 - Segmentation violation. Attempting traceback.
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:15.607951500 Kaboom! exepath=/usr/sbin/
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:15.612249500 Calling: /usr/sbin/btraceback 
>> /usr/sbin/bacula-dir 30863 /var/lib/bacula
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:16.554609500 bsmtp: bsmtp.c:145 Fatal malformed reply from 
>> localhost: 501 <root>: sender address must contain a domain
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:16.554938500 It looks like the traceback worked ...
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:16.554939500 Dumping: 
>> /var/lib/bacula/SOME.HOST.NAME.30863.bactrace
>> 2013-11-28 01:48:16.554940500 SOME.HOST.NAME: lockmgr.c:966 lockmgr disabled
>>
>> Does this mean that bacula actually crashed because it got an unexpected 
>> reply from the local mta?! Has anyone experienced this before?
>
> No, the error is "Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation" and
> the rest is printed by the code that tries to report it by email.

Ah ok - that makes a bit more sense. Thanks for clarifying that!

>
> If you built Bacula yourself, then check that you called configure with a
> valid email address and domain for the --with-dump-email argument.

Nope its not.

>
> If you are using a prebuild Bacula, then you could edit /usr/sbin/btraceback
> to have a valid email address after the -f argument to bsmtp.

Yep, as mentioned we are using prebuild packages (official Debian 
packets from squeeze-backports repository). In that case, we will try to 
dig deeper into the reasons for the seemlingy random crashes we have 
been experiencing for the past months.

>
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