[Box Backup] Eventlog full with warnings
Roy
boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:21:57 +0100
Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Roy wrote:
>
>
>>>>>> I'm afraid there's no debug information that would help at this
>>>>>> point. The best thing would be to have access to the machine
>>>>>> where it happens, but I assume that's not possible for you.
>>>>>> Failing that, I have to be able to reproduce it, and so far I
>>>>>> haven't been able to.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It is my workstation, that I use most of the time. So it would be
>>>>> quite hard to do that. BTW it's a Windows system. So I must use
>>>>> RDP or VNC. But can I do some things for you to test things? Maybe
>>>>> a chat/debug session would be quite handy for this?
>>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately at the moment I have no idea where this bug might come from,
>>>> how the memory could get corrupted, so I can't think of anything obvious
>>>> for you to test unless I can somehow make a custom build of bbackupd that
>>>> has memory corruption detection.
>>>>
>
> Good news: I think I found and fixed the problem. I've uploaded a
> temporary build for you. If you could test it out for me that would be
> really helpful. There will also be a new snapshot in the next few days,
> and when I make the Windows binary build for that, it will also have the
> fix in it.
>
> You can find the temporary build at:
>
> http://www.boxbackup.org/releases/temporary/boxbackup-trunk_2395M-backup-client-mingw32.zip
>
> Thanks for finding and reporting this problem!
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
Hi Chris,
I'm just at home and open my mailbox, and I see this terrific message! I
already saw the SVN message with the fix.
I will test this immediately on my workstation, and later on the Windows
2003 server.
I something is going wrong I will send you the debug logs.
Cheers,
Roy