Re: Fwd: Re: Amanda 3.5.1 on MacOSX 10.11.6 problems...

At Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:13:29 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:22:49 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:28:56 +0200 Michael Weiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Robert,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:16:04AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think I've seen that recently too.  If you can reproduce it
> > > > > specifically we may jump after it too .. now that I'm getting time.
> > > > Oh, it is reproducable.  I am now backing up the machine with a simple Tcl 
> > > > script that implements a Tower of Hanoi sequence.  If I had some way to debug 
> > > > it (or any advise on how to do that), I'd be willing to help.  Sendbackup, 
> > > > when run interactively (-t option) works just fine.  It seems that when run 
> > > > from amandad things go bad.
> > > 
> > > There was (or is) a problem with semaphores on macOS which presented
> > > similarly. See
> > > https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&m=151899743314645&w=2 for the
> > > problem description and
> > > https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&m=151904969226603&w=2 for the fix.
> > > With this patch applied, amanda 3.5.1 runs fine for me on 10.14. I don't
> > > think, the patch ever made it into a release.
> > 
> > OK, I applied the patches, recompiled, and I am doing a test run now...
> 
> For the record, the original message containing the patch was:
> 
>   From: Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]>                                                            
>   Subject: Re: POSIX semaphore fd collision on macOS                                                               
>   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:09:43 +0000                                                                            
> 
> 
> It looks like Jean-Louis committed this into the upstream repo that day
>   git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/amanda/code/amanda/trunk@7706 a8d146d6-cc15-0410-8900-af154a0219e0
>   (git commit 3b8b650faf0ce7604ccaeb046ffa38fa9e74b870 )
> and in the 3_5 branch:
>   git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/amanda/code/amanda/branches/3_5@7707 a8d146d6-cc15-0410-8900-af154a0219e0
>   (git commit 559a0e80664ef7274acef7ddefcb7e7dcf493c0d )
> ... but that is indeed after v3.5.1 was released in November 2017...

OK, I download from the subversion repo, but that version does not compile 
under MacOSX.  I am going to totally give up on getting a working version of 
Amanda on this Mac.  Maybe I'll try again once the next release becomes 
available (is there any time table for that?).

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