[Box Backup] boxbackup on 64bit systems (= on alpha)

[Ben Summers]

On 30 Apr 2004, at 16:47, Flavio Curti wrote:

> Hi Ben
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:57:28AM +0100, Ben Summers wrote:
>> It should run. Is there anything in your logs?
> Apr 30 17:31:29 droot bbackupd[12063]: Starting daemon (config:
> /etc/box/bbackupd.conf) (version 0.05PLUS1B)
> Apr 30 17:31:29 droot bbackupd[12063]: TRACE: Set maximum diffing time
> to 20 seconds
> Apr 30 17:31:29 droot bbackupd[12063]: TRACE: Exception thrown:
> CommonException(AssertFailed) at BoxTime.cpp(65)
> Apr 30 17:31:29 droot bbackupd[12063]: TRACE: Block 200c8020 freed, but
> not known. Error? Or allocated in startup static allocation?
>
> time_t is 64bit on this machine, I changed this in the source into
> uint_64, and it does start now...

Interesting difference, will get that sorted out.

>  but it just hangs there and does
> nothing, in the Logs:
> Apr 30 17:32:48 droot bbackupd[12141]: Starting daemon (config:
> [snip]
> Apr 30 17:32:48 droot bbackupd[12141]: TRACE: new location
>
> nothing more after that... strace is not possible??!

It's weird that it should stop there. Is it using up any processor 
time, or just doing nothing?

>
>> The errors you've listed all seem to be just warnings which are fairly
>> harmless, although it'd be nice to fix them. Which compiler are you
>> using? (output of gcc -v)
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/3.3.3/specs
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v
> --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang 
> --prefix=/usr
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
> --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
> --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
> --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc
> alpha-linux
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)
>
>>    perl ./runtest.pl ALL release
> I'm just running that one. If you are interested I'll send you the
> output...

That would be useful, thanks.

It may be a little while before I can do anything with these results, 
though.

Ben