Re: [Bacula-users] Getting err=22 message in dbcheck

[Steven A. F. <sa...@op...>]

On 06/15/2012 04:36 AM, Marco van Wieringen wrote:
> Steven A. Falco <safalco <at> optonline.net> writes:

>> In other words, the call to rwl_writelock_p is returning EINVAL
>> because the rwl is not valid.  (I added a printf right before
>> the return statement, so I am sure that this is the place the
>> EINVAL (err 22) comes from.)
>>
>> Again, dbcheck puts out good data; it just has problems cleaning
>> up at the end.  And everything else works - I can run backups,
>> do restores, etc.  It is just the catalog backup that has problems.
>>
>> I'm not really sure where to go from here.  I've hacked around the
>> problem by hard-coding the appropriate strings into the perl script
>> and bypassing dbcheck entirely.  But I'd surely like to fix it
>> properly...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
> Log a bug on bugs.bacula.org ?

Sure, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't doing something stupid
before wasting your time with a bogus bug report. :-)

> I did it for you see:
> 
> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1893

Thank you!  I appreciate that.

> The fix is rather simple, only dbcheck does a db_init_database and
> never an db_open_database (which is also not needed for printing the
> database info) but the db_close_database method calls the db_end_transaction
> method which does a db_lock which uses the rwl_lock which is still invalide
> as it only gets initialized in db_open_database. So the workaround is to
> never call db_end_transaction on a non-open database (makes no sense anyhow
> as there never will be a transaction when the database is not opened)
> and an extra check in the rwl_lock tear down to check if it even is
> initialized. Thanks for the analyze however it made my life a lot easier.

Glad to help!

	Steve

> 
> I have assigned the bug to me and will be pushing a fix to the next version.
> 
> Marco
> 
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