From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 20 07:13:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA03642 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:13:00 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA03637 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:12:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA00522 ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:32:49 +0100 To: Satoshi Asami cc: bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using amanda from ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 03:01:34 PDT." <199509201001.DAA04750@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:32:47 +0100 Message-ID: <520.811603967@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199509201001.DAA04750@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami write s: > * Well, Think I'll have to give up my attempts to use amanda for now. > * I did finally get it to run but it caused my system to spontaneously > * reboot while it was running. I have used up more time than I can > * afford on it right now, perhaps next time I get to trying it I will > * have better luck. Too bad, it looks quite useful... :-( >Sorry to hear that. :< There was a problem in the SCSI tape code (probably in 2.0.5R also, as the bug was noticed (by me at least) after the disk was pressed). For the life of me I can't remember what it was tho. I think it was a timeout problem, not a crash'n'burn problem tho. ``spontaneously reboot'' == kernel stack overflow (if there wasn't a panic message). Details of your problem should be addressed to the relevant list (freebsd-current or freebsd-stable depending on your version - ports certainly isn't it). A dmesg showing hardware involved would certainly be helpful in debugging this problem. > * I'd certainly like to hear from folks that are successfully using > * it... About 6 machines are dumped to a 9Gb Exabyte tape drive every night at Walnut Creek (aka cdrom.com). This includes freefall.FreeBSD.ORG, so I sincerely hope it works! (I have to say, I do know that it works - I am on the alias that gets the dump reports every night). >I'm sure there is somebody using it successfully, maybe you can ask in >the newsgroup or "hackers"? The "ports" list is for porters, so >amanda users may not be listening here.... This isn't a generic Amanda problem I think. I can't think of HOW amanda can force a spontaneous reboot, as it doesn't do anything low level enough to worry me (all the low level stuff is done through `dump(8)' and then piped over TCP/IP to a listener which dumps it to the tape). Gary P.S. Sorry if I'm hopping on the end of this discussion, I don't remember seeing previous mails about this (I could have done, I've had a lot on my mind the last few days).