Debian Bug report logs - #424048
amanda-server: amrecover excessively slow if index files contain '"' or '\'

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: amanda-server: amrecover excessively slow if index files contain '"' or '\'

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:39:59 +0100

Package: amanda-server
Version: 1:2.5.1p1-2
Severity: important


When attempting to run 'amrecover' which reads the index for an entry in the
disklist containing '"' or '\' as characters, 'amrecover' spins away for an
inordinately long time (approximately 60 minutes) compared to those indexes
without such special characters (time is normally less than a second).

According to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel/1875
this is a known problem and is fixed in version 2.5.1p2 (although 2.5.1p3 is
now available).

I'm raising this bug report as a hook to consider that the AMANDA packages in
Etch should perhaps be updated at the 'r1' release.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages amanda-server depends on:
ii  amanda-common    1:2.5.1p1-2             Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ
ii  libc6            2.3.6.ds1-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5      5.5-5                   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5     5.2-2                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent

amanda-server recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 424048@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>

To: Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk>, 424048@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#424048: amanda-server: amrecover excessively slow if index files contain '"' or '\'

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:37:24 -0600

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:39 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> According to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel/1875
> this is a known problem and is fixed in version 2.5.1p2 (although 2.5.1p3 is
> now available).

Any chance you could try the 2.5.1p3 packages currently in unstable?  We had some 11th-hour discussion about the versions of tar and amanda that should be in etch, but frankly, the changes weren't clearly worth the risk of destabilizing the release.  If we're going to consider rolling this in a point release, it would be good to know if the problem is definitely fixed.

Bdale

Message #15 received at 424048@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk>

To: 424048@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#424048: amanda-server: amrecover excessively slow if index files contain '"' or '\'

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:56:08 +0100

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On Tuesday, 15.05.2007 at 09:37 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:39 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > According to
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel/1875 this
> > is a known problem and is fixed in version 2.5.1p2 (although 2.5.1p3
> > is now available).
> 
> Any chance you could try the 2.5.1p3 packages currently in unstable?
> We had some 11th-hour discussion about the versions of tar and amanda
> that should be in etch, but frankly, the changes weren't clearly worth
> the risk of destabilizing the release.  If we're going to consider
> rolling this in a point release, it would be good to know if the
> problem is definitely fixed.

Installing 2.5.1p3-2 does indeed fix this particular problem, yes.  I
should have made that clear in my original report.  I took the 2.5.1p3-2
packages from Lenny, today.

The 2.5.1p3-2/Lenny packages have the same non-AMANDA dependencies as
those in Etch, so this was a fairly easy change.

Dave.
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Message #20 received at 424048-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee)

To: 424048-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed in 2.5.1p3

Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:55:24 -0600 (MDT)

Version: 2.5.1p3-2

Submitter confirms the problem is fixed in 2.5.1p3 and later.  

Bdale

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