Am 2017-09-12 um 18:22 schrieb Chris Hoogendyk: > Amanda users, > > Sorry I took this offline with Jean-Louis. I was sending him > multi-megabyte debug files and didn't want to spam the list. Stefan > Weichinger in particular indicated an interest in the outcome, so I'm > forwarding a tail of the exchange. > > Jean-Louis sent me a patch for a possible race condition. That got rid > of the dump failures with the "shm_ring cancelled." After applying the > patch, the Amanda email report showed no errors except the usual > "strange" messages gnutar spits when a log file changes while being > backed up. I should be able to get rid of those as well, since I now > have everything using application app-amgtar. > > I've attached the patch for those interested. It requires a rebuild of > Amanda. Since I had kept the source directory, and had already done the > configure, all I needed to do was apply the patch, make, and make > install. amcheck daily looked good, and Amanda ran without a problem.
Thanks, Chris, for reporting back to the list. I see the patch as commit ce9c19c on github already, so I am happy to get this fix with the next release of amanda anyway ;-) Regards, Stefan
