I am not quite sure why it worked. I didn’t actually run the command, but
my colleague did and was able to get the service to start after running
Kill -9 1289
Ps -ax did not show a process with that ID, and I also could not find a pid
file in /var/run/BackupPC.
Also, rebooted multiple times and always showed as running on PID 1289 when
the service failed to start, saying BackupPC was already running, which it
wasn’t.
Very odd! This occurred on Fedora 25 with BackupPC installed via DNF.
Jeff West
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*From:* Adam Goryachev [mailto:mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au]
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3:10 AM
*To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems Starting BackupPC
On 31/5/17 16:44, Craig Barratt wrote:
Michael is correct that BackupPC does use $Info->{pid} (which is read from
status.pl). But it does check that that process exists before printing the
error message (using perl's kill(0, pid) that doesn't really send a signal,
but tells you whether the process is alive). So I don't know why it claims
process 1289 is running; that would mean "kill(0, 1289)" returns 1
(success)...
I assume after a reboot it is very possible that some other process is
running and has used pid 1289, and isn't a short-lived process (ie, some
other daemon or similar).
Does BPC check the name of the process that is found? This would help to
avoid this confusion (pid exists but is not a BPC pid).
P.S.: Yes, it might ultimately turn out that you need to break down the
door,
but, in my experience, you usually don't break down a *random* door
even then.
Which means the OP broke down a random door, and didn't even need to get
into that room anyway (ie, killed a random unknown process, which may or
may not be causing other problems, since the expected process is not
running correctly).
Regards,
Adam
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