Re: [BackupPC-users] Error ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Steve Palm reported that error last week on this list.  It relates to a
patch included in 4.x to make ipv6 work.

It's likely you have an old version of perl and Socket.pm.  Could you tell
us your versions?  Run this:

perl -v
perl -e 'use Socket; print $Socket::VERSION . "\n"'


Try upgrading Socket.pm:

sudo cpan

install Socket


I'll add a version check on Socket to configure.pl.

Craig

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:25 PM, John Barton <jb...@st...> wrote:

> I recently upgraded from BackupPC 3.3.0 to version 4.1. The upgrade
> process itself seemed to go OK, and I only had to fix a few unquoted items
> in my config file for BackupPC to successfully restart. Now, however, when
> I try to run a backup on a client that was working prior to the upgrade, I
> get the following error in my log, and the backup never attempts to run,
> nor is there any error in the web interface. Any input is appreciated.
>
>
>
> 2017-03-27 20:16:17 User admin requested backup of hostname.domain.com (
> hostname.domain.com)
>
> 2017-03-27 20:16:17 hostname.domain.com: getaddrinfo is not a valid
> Socket macro at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413
>
>
>
> John Barton
>
> Specialized Tech Solutions, LLC
>
> *Jb...@st... <Jb...@st...>*
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
> _______________________________________________
> BackupPC-users mailing list
> Bac...@li...
> List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
> Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
>