Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:30:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc2=another train wreck with amanda |
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> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:49:01 -0500 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings; > > I have this line in my /etc/modprobe.conf: > options dm-mod major=238 > > And I had a fsckup while building 2.6.24-rc2 cuz I thought it needed to be > based on 2.6.23.1 that has made 2.6.24-rc2 the only kernel that will boot > without a panic, killing init message. > > I can survive that, but amanda (tar) went bonkers last night and tried to do a > level 0 on everything, which is about 50GB, but its virtual tape size is only > 11GB. > > The last time this happened that line above fixed the device mapper to a > stable address at a major of 238 which tar was happy with. > > An ls -l of /dev/mapper: > [root@coyote /]# ls -l /dev/mapper > total 0 > crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Nov 6 23:40 control > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 238, 0 Nov 6 23:40 VolGroup00-LogVol00 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 238, 1 Nov 6 23:40 VolGroup00-LogVol01 > > So that hasn't changed, so what did? Amanda itself hasn't been changed in > several months, running the 20070727 snapshot of amanda-2.5.2p1 all this > time. Tar was updated by smart or yumex 2 or 3 days back, so it worked > correctly after the update. That leaves something in 2.6.24-rc2. I didn't > build rc1. > > Other than that, rc2 seems stable. But auditd failed to start in the bootup > sequence. I think that's minor and may predate this particular kernel. > However, selinux did a relabel before it booted, could that be the cause? >
An selinux relabelling could well have caused a full backup by amanda.
There's a way of forcing a relabelling so that you can confirm this, but I forget what it is (cc's added, please).
But we don't know why the relabelling happened, do we? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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