Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-08-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Andreas, > > on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: > > AS> Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group > membership > AS> disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=am

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-08-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Andreas, > > on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: > > AS> Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group > membership > AS> disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=am

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:07:39PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > Anyway here's the diff from 2.6.5-rc1 to 2.6.5-rc2: I am not a kernel hacker and I have not checked the source. But judging from the diff there is one thing that look strange to me: Old code assigned exp_amanda_info->offset befo

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 at 21:07 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> It appears that a change occured in ip_conntrack_amanda.c between AS> 2.6.5-rc1 and rc2 (this change isn't mentioned in the Changelog or I am AS> unable to find it). I don't know what I was

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 at 21:07 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> It appears that a change occured in ip_conntrack_amanda.c between AS> 2.6.5-rc1 and rc2 (this change isn't mentioned in the Changelog or I am AS> unable to find it). I don't know what I was thinking when I went from

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-17 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 at 08:09 you wrote to amanda-users: A diff against my current .config shows that this seems to be a pretty fat kernel, many many things compiled into it statically ... I am no kernel-hacker but I know that having ONE of all those

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Jay Fenlason
I've experienced similar problems backing up a Windows 2000 client (with the Cygwin Amanda client) from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (Itanium) box. The errors only happen when the Windows box is on the far side of a Fedora Core 2 bridge/gateway. When the Windows box is directly attached to t

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 at 08:09 you wrote to amanda-users: A diff against my current .config shows that this seems to be a pretty fat kernel, many many things compiled into it statically ... I am no kernel-hacker but I know that having ONE of all those

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 at 08:09 you wrote to amanda-users: >> A diff against my current .config shows that this seems to be a pretty >> fat kernel, many many things compiled into it statically ... >> >> I am no kernel-hacker but I know that having ONE of all those options >> wro

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 21:56 you wrote to amanda-users: Where could that one reside? A faulty network-module? Remember that these things work fine here with each 2.6 .. AS> I'm almost sure it's some kind of kernel bug. That's why I have bothered AS>

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Very very strange... Do you have netcat installed? What is the output of this command on 2.6.6rc2? nc -v -v -s 127.0.0.1 -p 1234 127.0.0.1 1234 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/amanda$ nc -v -v -s 127.0.0.1 -p 1234 127.0.0.1 1234 localhost [127.0.0.1] 1234 (?) open /Andreas

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Very very strange... Do you have netcat installed? What is the output of this command on 2.6.6rc2? nc -v -v -s 127.0.0.1 -p 1234 127.0.0.1 1234 -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://w

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 21:56 you wrote to amanda-users: >> Where could that one reside? A faulty network-module? Remember that >> these things work fine here with each 2.6 .. AS> I'm almost sure it's some kind of kernel bug. That's why I have bothered AS> to narrow down on wi

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Just for fun: if you disable the indexing, then the backup will run fine, I believe. ("index no" in dumptype). Well, no it doesn't work that way either. /Andreas

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 16:49 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> And amanda cleans up the other two connections. PB> Amanda tries again with another set of ports a few times PB> but always trying to connect to 65535 for the index. PB> Then she gives up comple

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 16:49 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> And amanda cleans up the other two connections. PB> Amanda tries again with another set of ports a few times PB> but always trying to connect to 65535 for the index. PB> Then she gives up completely. I also noticed the

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: It seems ethereal store only the first few bytes of each packet. There is probably an option to set that size; similar to "tcpdump -s 1500". That means I don't have the full info, but I believe I've seen enough! Following up on myself. I've digged into the

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: It seems ethereal store only the first few bytes of each packet. There is probably an option to set that size; similar to "tcpdump -s 1500". That means I don't have the full info, but I believe I've seen enough! Following up on myself. I've digged into the amanda source, and not

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Andreas Sundstrom wrote: I have now made a dump on the traffic passing through lo during the amdump. I have also recompiled amanda with these two settings (as another friendly person suggested): --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 The dump is available at ftp://zappa.cx/pub/

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 13:32 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> I have now made a dump on the traffic passing through lo during the amdump. AS> I AS> have also recompiled amanda with these two settings (as another friendly person AS> suggested): --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --w

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > > > Also what do you recommend as parameters to tcpdump, it's all running on > the > > same host does that mean I can sniff on "lo"? > > This works for me on Linux 2.4.22: > >sudo tcpdump -i lo -w trace.lo I have now ma

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Andreas Sundstrom wrote: Also what do you recommend as parameters to tcpdump, it's all running on the same host does that mean I can sniff on "lo"? This works for me on Linux 2.4.22: sudo tcpdump -i lo -w trace.lo -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technolo

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > > > All went well and the backup finished successful. Then I switched to my > > identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as > earlier: > > These dumps were to tape dflt10. > > The next tape Amanda

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership AS> disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, AS> group=disk and installed. AS> I had som trouble to get i

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Andreas Sundstrom wrote: All went well and the backup finished successful. Then I switched to my identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as earlier: These dumps were to tape dflt10. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dflt11. The next new tape already labelled is:

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Andreas Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Eric Siegerman wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > > > >> --with-user=root \ > >> --with-group=root > > > > > > A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. > > Normal

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 June 2004 15:41, Eric Siegerman wrote: >On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: >> --with-user=root \ >> --with-group=root > >A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. >Normally one doesn't run Amanda as root; it's able

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-14 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: --with-user=root \ --with-group=root A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. Normally one doesn't run Amanda as root; it's able to get root privilege when it needs it (t

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > --with-user=root \ > --with-group=root A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. Normally one doesn't run Amanda as root; it's able to get root privilege when it needs it (that's what the l

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Andreas Sundstrom wrote: I'm sending this now to the amanda-users list, I originally sent it to the linux-kernel ml but the only person who have answered my mail is Gene Heskett which also recommended me to try here. I'm using amanda-2.4.4p2 but I have also tried 2.4.5b1-2004

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 at 15:04 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> I have trouble upgrading from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6, I have narrowed AS> it down by trying the different rc releases. Between 2.6.6-rc1 and AS> 2.6.6-rc2 something happens that make my amanda backups

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Andreas Sundstrom wrote: I'm sending this now to the amanda-users list, I originally sent it to the linux-kernel ml but the only person who have answered my mail is Gene Heskett which also recommended me to try here. I'm using amanda-2.4.4p2 but I have also tried 2.4.5b1-20040510 with the same

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andreas, on Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 at 15:04 you wrote to amanda-users: AS> I have trouble upgrading from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6, I have narrowed AS> it down by trying the different rc releases. Between 2.6.6-rc1 and AS> 2.6.6-rc2 something happens that make my amanda backups fail AS> with the error [

2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
I'm sending this now to the amanda-users list, I originally sent it to the linux-kernel ml but the only person who have answered my mail is Gene Heskett which also recommended me to try here. I'm using amanda-2.4.4p2 but I have also tried 2.4.5b1-20040510 with the same results. I have trouble upg