[Box Backup] Assertion failure

[Ben Summers]

On 20 Jan 2005, at 02:17, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just got the following assertion failure while testing boxbackup 
> 0.09:
>
> ASSERT FAILED: [dirid == mObjectID] at 
> BackupClientDirectoryRecord.cpp(820)
> Exception thrown: CommonException(AssertFailed) at 
> BackupClientDirectoryRecord.cpp(820)
>
> Any ideas?

The inode tracking is out of date -- something has changed and the 
system has reused the inode number. This is actually harmless, and in 
the usual release builds is not checked.

You're running a debug version of the daemon. The check is desirable 
there, because inode reuse over the lifetime of a test daemon run is 
incredibly unlikely, suggesting a bug which should be caught.

I shall add a comment to the source about this.

If you're modifying the code, look into it. If you're just running the 
daemon to back up your files, swap to the release version. You might 
also want to wipe the contents of /var/bbackupd just to be on the safe 
side.

Ben