On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:22, Rick Knight wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >If you are able to reproduce this easily, could you turn on level 100 by
> >putting -d100 on the command line when you start it, then capture the
> > output. This may help me understand what is going on.
> >
> >I've tried everything I can to duplicate this, but all my tests run fine.
> >
> >Hmmm. Normally, it wouldn't be the OS that is causing problems, but I'm
> > open to almost any suggestion -- the goal being to fix it ...
> >
> >On Tuesday 13 December 2005 22:07, James Peverill wrote:
> >>I am also getting this error since upgrading to 1.38 from the 1.36
> >>branch... been trying to figure out why for a few days now.
> >>
> >>I am also running slackware 10... I wonder if this is related. Not
> >>running 2.4 kernel though, running 2.6.11.12 right now. I am backing up
> >>to disk, not tapes. Manually scheduled jobs run just fine, and
> >>automatic jobs run sometimes (the first job)... but most of the time
> >>they block indefinitely with "waiting to reserve a device".
> >>
> >>I figured I had just screwed up a configuration file somehow, but I have
> >>tweaked my configuration files with no improvement. Maybe this is tied
> >>to a package in slackware 10? Any other users running slackware 10 with
> >>1.38 successfully?
> >>
> >>james peverill
> >>
> >>Richard W. Knight wrote:
> >>>Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>>>On Tuesday 13 December 2005 13:43, Rick Knight wrote:
> >>>>>Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>>>>>Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On Monday 12 December 2005 19:35, Richard W. Knight wrote:
> >>>>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my Bacula installation from 1.34 to
> >>>>>>>1.38.1. I made a few other changes at the same time and everything
> >>>>>>>has
> >>>>>>>been working well since. Yesterday I decided to upgrade to 1.38.3. I
> >>>>>>>built from source using the same configuration options that I used
> >>>>>>> to build 1.38.1 with the addition of "--with-python". The build
> >>>>>>> went OK,
> >>>>>>>no errors. I stopped 1.38.1 and started 1.38.3. Everything seemed
> >>>>>>>to be
> >>>>>>>OK. I ran a couple of small test backups and there were no errors
> >>>>>>>so I
> >>>>>>>assumed that the upgrade went fine. Last night the scheduled
> >>>>>>>backup ran
> >>>>>>>and after the first job, instead of continuing on to the next job,
> >>>>>>>I got
> >>>>>>>this message ...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>12-Dec 07:29 MyJob-SMB-sd: Job MyJob.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to
> >>>>>>>reserve a device.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>This morning, when I first saw this message, I just did a mount from
> >>>>>>>bconsole and the job continued, I have bacula configured for 6
> >>>>>>>jobs per
> >>>>>>>media and the tape wasn't full so the job should have just started
> >>>>>>>as it
> >>>>>>>hallways has. Now it's time to backup up the catalog, to file, and
> >>>>>>>I'm
> >>>>>>>getting the same message.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I have an HP DDS2 drive, no changer, running on Slackware 10. I'm
> >>>>>>>using
> >>>>>>>the same conf files the worked fine on 1.38.1. Can anyone tell me
> >>>>>>> why I'm now getting this error message?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>You are not by any chance running on a 2.4 kernel with /lib/tls?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Could you send me your bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf along
> >>>>>>with the
> >>>>>>job report that shows the jobs blocking?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Thanks,
> >>>>>>>RickKnight
> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>Thanks Kern,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I am running a 2.4.26 kernel, but I don't know about /lib/tls. I don't
> >>>>>have a /lib/tls on my system. How can I tell?
> >>>>
> >>>>Try:
> >>>>
> >>>> ls -l /lib/tls
> >>>>
> >>>>If it exists, then that could explain why it *appears* that Bacula is
> >>>>not seeing some pthread broadcasts that would allow it to continue.
> >>>>This is a bit of a long shot, but at this point, I need to consider
> >>>>all possibilities ...
> >>>>
> >>>>In the mean time, I'll take a careful look at your config. Perhaps I
> >>>>have missed something important that I can add to my test cases. All
> >>>>my tests here succeeded perfectly ...
> >>>>
> >>>>By the way, getting the message that a job is waiting to reserve a
> >>>>drive is not in itself bad. This happens in my test case. However, at
> >>>>some point when the drive is available, the job should continue as it
> >>>>does in my test case.
> >>>>
> >>>>>Also, the .conf files are attached along with the log.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks again,
> >>>>>RickKnight
> >>>
> >>>Kern,
> >>>
> >>>I just got another job log email. Something I noticed is a clock
> >>>difference between the Director and File daemons. The two lines below
> >>>are from this mornings log (also attached). Could that be causing a
> >>>problem?
> >>>
> >>>12-Dec 19:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01
> >>>waiting to reserve a device.
> >>>13-Dec 04:33 knight-linux-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by 676 seconds,
> >>>FD automatically adjusting.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Thanks again,
> >>>Rick Knight
> >>>
> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>12-Dec 04:29 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Start Backup JobId 559,
> >>>Job=Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 12-Dec 04:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd:
> >>>Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 12-Dec
> >>>05:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting
> >>>to reserve a device. 12-Dec 07:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job
> >>>Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 12-Dec
> >>>11:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting
> >>>to reserve a device. 12-Dec 19:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job
> >>>Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 13-Dec
> >>>04:33 knight-linux-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by 676 seconds, FD
> >>>automatically adjusting. 13-Dec 04:22 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Volume
> >>>"DailyIncr-0011" previously written, moving to end of data. 13-Dec 04:22
> >>>knight-linux-SMB-sd: Ready to append to end of Volume "DailyIncr-0011"
> >>> at file=4. 13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Bacula 1.38.3 (09Dec05):
> >>> 13-Dec-2005 04:44:48 JobId: 559
> >>> Job: Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01
> >>> Backup Level: Incremental, since=2005-12-11 01:07:20
> >>> Client: "knight-linux-fd"
> >>>i686-pc-linux-gnu,slackware,Slackware 9.0.0 FileSet:
> >>>"Knight-Linux" 2005-11-21 21:06:17
> >>> Pool: "DailyPool"
> >>> Storage: "HPSureStoreDAT-8"
> >>> Scheduled time: 12-Dec-2005 01:05:00
> >>> Start time: 12-Dec-2005 04:29:22
> >>> End time: 13-Dec-2005 04:44:48
> >>> Priority: 10
> >>> FD Files Written: 262
> >>> SD Files Written: 262
> >>> FD Bytes Written: 675,038,414
> >>> SD Bytes Written: 675,072,191
> >>> Rate: 7.7 KB/s
> >>> Software Compression: None
> >>> Volume name(s): DailyIncr-0011
> >>> Volume Session Id: 3
> >>> Volume Session Time: 1134331562
> >>> Last Volume Bytes: 2,190,220,863
> >>> Non-fatal FD errors: 0
> >>> SD Errors: 0
> >>> FD termination status: OK
> >>> SD termination status: OK
> >>> Termination: Backup OK
> >>>
> >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Begin pruning Jobs.
> >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: No Jobs found to prune.
> >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Begin pruning Files.
> >>>13-Dec 04:50 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Pruned Files from 2 Jobs for client
> >>>knight-linux-fd from catalog. 13-Dec 04:50 knight-linux-SMB-dir: End
> >>> auto prune.
>
> Kern,
>
> Here's some more info from my Director Status.
>
> Running Jobs:
> JobId Level Name Status
> ======================================================================
> 560 Full BackupCatalog.2005-12-12_01.10.00 is waiting for higher
> priority
> jobs to finish
> 561 Increme Knight-Linux_SMB.2005-12-13_01.05.00 is running
> 562 Increme Knight-Linux.2005-12-13_01.05.01 is waiting on max
> Storage jobs
> 563 Full BackupCatalog.2005-12-13_01.10.00 is waiting execution
> ====
>
> Catalog backs up to File and job 560 should be done. Also, at the time
> I'm looking at this, job 561 has finished so 562 should have just
> started, but I had to mount the volume in the drive. It should have
> already been mounted, unless, the prior evenings Catalog (runAfter is in
> Catalog only) is not finished because it could not eject the tape
> because the tape drive is busy with the next job? Or am I just confused?
I suspect that there are two problems here. 1. You probably don't have
Maximume Concurrent Jobs set in your director's storage resource, and 2. it
looks like there may be a problem with the way the SD in 1.38 is trying to
open drives, which cause it to wait. I'm working on a solution to that now.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Knight
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