[Box Backup] Odd Box Issue

Matt Brown boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Tue, 27 May 2008 18:17:40 +0100


Hi Chris,

>> This is where everything grinds to a halt, however it has over time  
>> got past this file and moved on - but as I only changed this file  
>> today this is where it now stops.....
>
> Could you strace the bbackupd client while it's "ground to a halt"  
> and see what it's doing? The server seems to think that it should be  
> expecting a command from the client at this point, but the client  
> obviously has other ideas.

Not being familiar with strace *blush* .. I hope this is what you  
need ........

8960  read(5, 0x8108738, 5)             = -1 EAGAIN (Resource  
temporarily unavailable)
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 342308}, NULL) = 0
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 342337}, NULL) = 0
8960  poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 900000) = 1
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0 ", 5)          = 5
8960  read(5, "\305\275\315\216\350(\230\236 \262\333\316\273\355o 
\351"..., 32) = 32
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0 ", 5)          = 5
8960  read(5, "5n\375\316\342\373i\251\0169\220\340\33h 
\351\316\214\367"..., 32) = 32
8960  read(5, 0x8108738, 5)             = -1 EAGAIN (Resource  
temporarily unavailable)
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 394440}, NULL) = 0
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 394467}, NULL) = 0
8960  poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 900000) = 1
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0 ", 5)          = 5
8960  read(5, "wF\212GH\377\305\n\210\241\177\2155- 
\354\225\276\371\30"..., 32) = 32
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0 ", 5)          = 5
8960  read(5, "<\332I\271&\220\367d\213;\200s6~~\360y 
\211\26\274\331z"..., 32) = 32
8960  time([1211907986])                = 1211907986
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  send(4, "<182>May 27 18:06:26 Box Backup "..., 76, MSG_NOSIGNAL)  
= 76
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0 ", 5)          = 5
8960  read(5, "\317\3203)\211lL\343i\352D\267(\35\331\216t\253%\211+ 
\314"..., 32) = 32
8960  read(5, "\27\3\1\0\240", 5)       = 5
8960  read(5, "\216V\271a]\356\321Icb\3720b\311K\225\313_\t\323 U 
\262"..., 160) = 160
8960  lstat64("/etc/box", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
8960  llistxattr("/etc/box", 0x81bce08, 1000) = 0
8960  lstat64("/etc/box/bbackupd.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=5611, ...}) = 0
8960  llistxattr("/etc/box/bbackupd.conf", 0x81bce08, 1000) = 0
8960  lstat64("/etc/box/bbackupd.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=5611, ...}) = 0
8960  llistxattr("/etc/box/bbackupd.conf", 0x81bdf80, 1000) = 0
8960  open("/etc/box/bbackupd.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6
8960  fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5611, ...}) = 0
8960  _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)      = 0
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 482938}, NULL) = 0
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 \377;\220\211m\245`\333\256@Y|\303c 
\252\36\216"..., 122) = 122
8960  time([1211907986])                = 1211907986
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,  
st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
8960  send(4, "<182>May 27 18:06:26 Box Backup "..., 80, MSG_NOSIGNAL)  
= 80
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 \16>\360`|5\251\33i\244\"\254W\224\r 
\235\263"..., 74) = 74
8960  brk(0x81f0000)                    = 0x81f0000
8960  read(6, "\nStoreHostname = pegasus.3aitsup"..., 4096) = 4096
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 483542}, NULL) = 0
8960  brk(0x8220000)                    = 0x8220000
8960  brk(0x8210000)                    = 0x8210000
8960  brk(0x8200000)                    = 0x8200000
8960  brk(0x81f0000)                    = 0x81f0000
8960  read(6, "MP3 file in particular.\n# \n# In "..., 1515) = 1515
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 484214}, NULL) = 0
8960  brk(0x8220000)                    = 0x8220000
8960  brk(0x8210000)                    = 0x8210000
8960  brk(0x8200000)                    = 0x8200000
8960  brk(0x81f0000)                    = 0x81f0000
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 \232\372,m@ER\270=H:\2263\263\37\252&{\v 
\353"..., 2762) = 2762
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 \334\254\233\371^\177J\306\356\304\255R 
\323\371"..., 154) = 154
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 \25\312\30\273W\276I\376[.\222\24\37\303t\r 
\375"..., 74) = 74
8960  write(5, "\27\3\1\0 +\246\21w\235WZ[K\204cY\37\26y 
\313\30\354\30"..., 74) = 74
8960  brk(0x81e0000)                    = 0x81e0000
8960  read(5, 0x8108738, 5)             = -1 EAGAIN (Resource  
temporarily unavailable)
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 485176}, NULL) = 0
8960  gettimeofday({1211907986, 485204}, NULL) = 0
8960  poll(

If not, please let me know what I need to capture and if you need the  
whole file..

Ta

Matt