Hi all -
I've searched the archives and did a google search on the above error, and I found an old sourceforge archive from JJ that offered some suggestions, but I still can't get a handle on what's going on.
Here's what I have: A server running amanda-2.4.4p4 running on RHE3 intel, and has been for a couple of years. A client running amanda-2.4.4p1 on Sol9, sparc.
Here's what's happening: I've isolated the problem to this client because it's the only one where all of the results are missing, well almost all. I changed my disklist to include only this client since all others are backing up just fine. Basically the job just hangs and hangs and hangs, so I come in and manually kill dumper0-dumper5 and then the taper pid's go away, too…then I finally get the email from amanda:
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
Ignore this - I didn't have a tape in the drive at the time I was trying this test…same with taper stats below*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [rewinding tape: Input/output error]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: uadaily02.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
smores.unt /usr RESULTS MISSING
smores.unt /opt RESULTS MISSING
smores.unt /export/home RESULTS MISSING
smores.unt /var RESULTS MISSING
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:01
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:01
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:01 0:00
Output Size (meg) 2.3 2.3 0.0
Original Size (meg) 2.3 2.3 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped 1 1 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 45.0 45.0 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
NOTES:
driver: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it.
driver: dumper0 pid 10808 is messed up, ignoring it.
driver: dumper0 died while dumping smores.unterlaw.com:/export/home lev 0.
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
------------------------ --------------------------------------- --------------
smores.u /etc 0 2360 2360 -- 0:52 45.0 N/A N/A
smores.u /export/home MISSING ----------------------------------------------
smores.u /opt MISSING ----------------------------------------------
smores.u /usr MISSING ----------------------------------------------
smores.u /var MISSING ----------------------------------------------
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p4)
According the email a couple of years ago from JJ, I tried to run the amdump on just this client, while running gdb in another window on the dumper pid. I've never used gdb before, but basically it just gave me a bunch of library connection stuff and then sat there after I typed "cont" at the <gdb> prompt.
Any suggestions?