Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 breaks amanda (was: 2.6.9-rc2-mm3)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 September 2004 17:30, Matthias Andree wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Sounds to me as if amanda isn't setup correctly.  its working here
>> just fine with 1 server and 2 clients, one of which is the server
>> itself.  Running version 2.4.5b1-20040915 to virtual tapes on a
>> big disk.
>
>Is Amanda set up incorrectly if SuSE's default 2.6.5 kernel and a
>vanilla 2.6.7 work well even with clients, but 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 to -mm3
>versions fail at the same task, with the same Amanda installation
> and software?
>
>I only exchanged the kernel, nothing else. Same hardware, same
>user-space software.
>
>I doubt that it's Amanda's configuration. I'd expect a "stable"
>2.6.9-whatever kernel to be backwards compatible with its 2.6.X
>predecessors.

I build amanda from tarballs for exactly that reason, and I do it 
everytime Jean-Louis releases a new tarball on his web page at 
umontreal.edu.  I have, over the years, come from a 2.2 kernel and 
amanda-2.4.1, to 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 and amanda-2.4.5b1-20040915, building 
about 1/4th of the test kernels released, half of the amanda 
snapshots and have never, ever had a problem I could blame on a 
kernel version.  Tape changer problems out the wahzoo, finally giving 
up and converting to a large disk drive that is except for a gig of 
swap, all amanda's to play in as she sees fit.

If you play by amanda's rules, she is a very diligent servant.  I'd 
bet a bottle of suds that there is something in the docs that tells 
you how to make amanda run, and that you have skipped over. Please 
re-read them again.  Also, there is an amanda support group, 
amanda-users@xxxxxxxxxx, where some user like me, or any of the 
authors can probably fix you right up.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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