[CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade

Ben

abnormaliti at clivepeeters.com.au
Thu Jul 3 23:21:14 UTC 2008


For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 
x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start.

"sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start" return OK but there is no BackupPC 
processes.

This fails also.
# sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d
# echo $?
0

This succeeds, but of course does not fork.
# sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC

So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into 
the background.

I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is 
fine.

Nothing appears in the LOG.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Ben


PS. Here is a list of installed perl packages.
# rpm -qa | grep perl
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6
perl-Crypt-DES-2.05-4.el5
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6
perl-DateTime-Format-Mail-0.30-4.el5
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1
perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-5.el5
nagios-plugins-perl-1.4.11-2.el5
perl-Config-IniFiles-2.39-6.el5
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.11-1.2.1
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-15
perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-1.c5
mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5
perl-Params-Validate-0.88-3.el5
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1
perl-DateTime-0.41-1.el5
perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF-0.04-1.el5
perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1
perl-Time-modules-2003.1126-4.el5.1
perl-MailTools-1.77-1.el5
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
perl-Net-SNMP-5.2.0-1.el5.1
perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1
perl-Class-Singleton-1.03-3.el5
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1
perl-XML-RSS-1.31-1.el5
perl-Geo-IP-1.28-3.el5
perl-TimeDate-1.16-5.el5




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