Steve,
I'm not sure what caused that error. It sounds like you had an old or
broken version of Socket, and re-installing it with cpan appears to have
fixed it.
Craig
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com> wrote:
> I had installed BackupPC-XS and rsync-bpc, but I re-installed BackupPC-XS
> after the other module changes I made below, and now it is working.
>
> Very strange. Don't know what I could have done wrong, but oh well....
> Wouldn't be the first time. LOL
>
> BTW: I really like the more modern look from GitHub.
>
>
> > On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I installed from Github to take advantage of recent fixes, and the
> upgrade worked fine. The web interface came up straight away, no problems.
> >
> > If these problems are BECAUSE I used the GitHub version, please advise
> and I will back it out or wait for resolution. Actually, I did install the
> released 4.0.0 version after this and it seems to make no difference.
> >
> > I am documenting some things I already fixed here in case others find it
> useful, but in the end I still do not have it working.
> >
> > However, trying to backup the localhost (previous v3 backup), I received
> this error:
> >
> > backuppc: getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro at
> /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413
> >
> > It did a delete pass, but when I tell it to do a full backup I get the
> above error in the log.
> >
> > The strangest thing is, looking in the config, the host is defined as
> 127.0.0.1, so how can that not be a valid address for
> Socket::getaddrinfo($host); ?
> >
> > I thought perhaps it was trying to use Socket::GetAddrInfo, which I was
> able to install after having to install these:
> >
> > File::Path File::Spec Test::More ExtUtils::CBuilder ExtUtils::CChecker
> >
> > But still the same error.
> >
> > For context, it is here in BackupPC:Lib, failing on the
> Socket::getaddrinfo line.
> >
> > sub getHostAddrInfo
> > {
> > my($bpc, $host) = @_;
> > my($err, @addrs) = Socket::getaddrinfo($host);
> > return undef if ( $err );
> > return (($addrs[0])->{'family'} == Socket::AF_INET6) ? 6 : 4;
> > }
> >
> > Installed `cpan install Socket` and the line went away from the logs,
> but it still is not making any backups. I don't know how to be sure all the
> modules are up-to-date without causing problems. :(
> >
> > Where to look, every log I look at doesn't show anything, it just logs
> that the backup was requested but it never does anything. :(
> >
> > Steve
> >
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