Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade from Fed 14 to Fed 15

[Bill D. <bil...@ya...>]

Hi Jeremy,

Since this sounds exactly like the root of the problem any chance of you 
spelling out to this humble newbie how I'd check and fix that please?

Cheers!



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From: Jeremy Maes <jm...@sc...>
To: Bill Damage <bil...@ya...>
Cc: al...@sk...; bac...@li...
Sent: Fri, 15 July, 2011 9:09:36
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade 
from Fed 14 to Fed 15

Op 15/07/2011 8:25, Bill Damage schreef: 
Hi Allesandro
>
>
>Well ain't that something? I'd have put money on it being           something we 
>did. In fact I can add to this - we have another           server, which was 
>running the same bacula on F15, which we           upgraded using the 
>"preupgrade" method, i.e. entirely via the           web and wizards. This went 
>perfectly. It was this process           which went wrong on the second server, 
>so we ended up doing           the upgrade via a DVD. Whilst from a Fed pov it 
>now seems ok,           there is this bacula problem and pretty much that's the 
>only           difference between these systems. 
>
>
>Its too important to mess with any longer. We're already a           week behind 
>with our backups so I'm going to use the           workaround you suggested, 
>thanks.
>
>
>
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From: Alessandro Bianchi <al...@sk...>
>To: bac...@li...
>Cc: bil...@ya...
>Sent: Thu,               14 July, 2011 12:50:14
>Subject: Re: Bconsole hangs when connecting to SD after upgrade               
>from Fed 14 to Fed 15
>
>Il 14/07/2011 13:29, bac...@li... ha scritto: 
>Hi - the upgrade wasn't without trouble - we had to preserve the bacula config,  
>do a clean installation and restore the config/cats etc. So its almost  
>definitely not a "bacula doesn't work with Fed15 problem" ;-)  What happens is 
>if I restart the services I can see them running fine and the sd  is running as 
>the user "bacula". If I try anything with touches the sd, say in  bconsole even 
>a "status all", the display stops at the first "Connecting to  Storage 
>daemon..." message. However, if I kill the sd process and run it from  root with 
>"bacula-sd -f -v" in another console all is well. There's nothing in  any logs I 
>can see. Whats gives please? Thanks.
Hi

I faced a very similar problem after upgrading from F14 to             F15

I had the SD hanging on every operation

I tracked it to a permission problem.

It seems to have some sort of trouble while dropping             privileges.

I "fixed" it editing the /etc/syscongif/bacula-sd file and             setting 
it like follows:

SD_USER=root
SD_GROUP=bacula

I don't like having the SD running as root so before doing             that I 
worked on permissions on the bacula SD storage area             (I'm using the 
File storage) with no luck.

Hope this points you in some useful direction.

You should really check which group owns the tape devices /dev/st0     and 
/dev/nst0 (or (n)st1 or higher if there's more than one drive).
I'll bet it is now owned by the group "tape" instead of the usual     group 
"disk" it was in the past. 


If that's the case you can just run the SD as user bacula and group     tape :-)

Regards,
Jeremy

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