Group already running...

[jkalbus]

Hi there,

we have currently a very strange problem - our Networker 6.1.2 on Solaris 5.7 sometimes does not start a group - trying to restart gives us a group already running error, although the group definitely is not running anymore.
No save, savepnpc, or anything else processes indicating a running backup.

When I first tried to stop the group my complete machine crashed - all, or say almost all processes died with only 6 to 8 remaining. Only a reboot helped.

It felt like networker was doing a "kill -9 -1" killing everything it is capable to kill - and with root permissions you could kill a lot of processes.

Calls with our support did not help yes - they were mostly aimed at the resources of the machine - but it is not at its limits.

Did anyone encounter the same strange behaviour?

Help is very much appreciated

Johanes

 

[Rexxy]

networker 6.1.3 has patches which relate to savegrp issues, such as starting one when another is running will hang it etc....an upgrade from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3 is a quick task which you could then test to see if it works....at least if it doesnt work you can scratch this off the troubleshooting list

 

[jkalbus]

Thank you for the suggestion. We're going to upgrade next week - if anything drastic happens I will write.
Our last upgrade almost killed us 6.0.2 to 6.1

 

[dmayes]

If the Status field on the GUI under Server --> Group Control is still showing running then it can't be started.

You can manually update via the nsradmin command to a status of idle.

nsradmin -s <server_name>
nsradmin> print type: NSR Group; name: Daily
type: NSR group
name: Daily;
autostart: Disabled;
start time: &quot;3:33&quot;;
client retries: 1;
clones: No;
clone pool: Default Clone;
printer: ;
nsradmin> update status: idle
Update? y
updated resource id x.xxx.xx.xxx.xx.xxx.xx.xx.xxx.xxx.x
nsradmin> quit

HTH...Dale