Re: Amanda 3.5.1 on MacOSX 10.11.6 problems...

FWIW:  your message is being transmitted.  I’m not familiar with usage on a Mac.
I hope somebody else is,  even if only when they return from vacation.

Sorry I can’t help.  :(
Deb Baddorf
Fermilab

> On Aug 15, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to get Amanda working on a MacMini running MacOSX 10.11.6, and I 
> am having troubles.  It compiles (I had to make a minor change to the code), 
> but fails to run properly.  I am not sure how to debug it and want to know if 
> there is any special magic needed to get Amanda to work under MacOSX 10.11.6.
> 
> 
> Forwarded Message:
> 
> From: Robert Heller <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Amanda 3.5.1 on MacOSX 10.11.6 problems...
> To: amanda users <[email protected]>
> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:32:33 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> 
> At Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> OK, I got Amanda 3.5.1 to compile under MacOSX 10.11.6, using these configure 
>> options:
>> 
>> '--without-server' '--with-ssh-security' '--prefix=/opt/local'  '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=wheel'
>> 
>> (I had to hack the location of aclocal's directory in autogen and Makefile.am, 
>> and had to change one line in ndmp-src/ndml_conn.c -- had to add a third 
>> argument to the xdr callback.)
>> 
>> But there is a problem with sendbackup: "compress" is is crashing:
>> 
>> Tue Aug 13 10:53:32 2019: pid 1284: thd-0x7faffb503400: sendbackup: critical (fatal): error [compress (1286) compress returned 1]
>> 0   libamanda-3.5.1.dylib               0x0000000104d321f0 debug_logging_handler + 528
>> 1   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x0000000104e672ab g_logv + 874
>> 2   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x0000000104e66f2c g_log + 134
>> 3   sendbackup                          0x0000000104ce69d7 parse_backup_messages + 983
>> 4   sendbackup                          0x0000000104ce47ad main + 5389
>> 5   libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff876fd5ad start + 1
>> 6   ???                                 0x0000000000000005 0x0 + 5
>> 
>> I think I need to run sendbackup in interactive mode (-t option I believe).  
>> Where can I find documentation on how to get sendbackup cranking on a "dummy" 
>> backup so I can catch the crash with gdb?
>> 
>> I suspect that something changed in glib between 2.56 (the version on 
>> Ubuntu 18.04 which has amanda 3.5.1), and 2.58 (what macports installed on my 
>> MacOSX machine), something needs to be updated somewhere in amanda to allow 
>> for that.
> 
> OK, I changed the DLEs to use server-side compression, and it is still 
> crashing.  I ran sendbackup in interactive mode, that seems to work OK, so it 
> looks like the problem is in the interprocess communication somewhere, 
> probably something screwy with glib (or how it was built under MacOSX 10.11).
> 
> Is there any way to debug this?  Is anyone else having this problem?  What are 
> my options for backing up this machine?  (And no, don't tell me to use Time 
> Machine or something like that.)  I need to be able to somehow backup this 
> MacOSX machine and it really needs to be running MacOSX.
> 
> Please, is there *anyone* out there in Amanda community doing anything with 
> MacOSX?  Or is MacOSX simply not really supported by Amanda (even though the 
> docs suggest that Amanda compiles and runs on MacOSX)? 
> 
>> 
> 
> 
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