sbackup goes into zombie status

[Adnan Doyuran]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

SImple Backup utulity sbackup used to work nicely but lately it does not work. It vreates the folder for back up but just stops. When I look at the system monitor I see tha sbackupd process is in zombie status. I tried killing or stopping but no luck. Whenever I run the backup process it goes into zombie status. Is there any solution for this?
Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 21 10:20:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Lupine (thelupine)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in sbackup.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Slick (slick666)]

Status updated by the ubuntu NY Loco Group

[buurd (roland-javalia)]

The problem occurs in 9.04 when I setup the backup-job though ssh. No error-message, no error. The process just go zombie. SimpleBackup hangs.

Is there a log or something that I can send you to get you the clues you need?

[PirBoazo (pierre-boizot-name)]

Please can you verify if the mount point (ssh) is in the sub - directory of the backup?

If it's case exclude the directory where you mount the sshfs

Regards.
Pierre

[Apple J. Kiss (applejuicekiss)]

i'v got the same problem.
ubuntu 8.10
sbackup version 0.10.5ubuntu2
sbackup process goes zombie whether destination is local drive or ssh over lan.

thanks

[Adnan Doyuran (adoyuran)]

I have search the files that has sbackup in home folder and deleted
them, then it started working I believe after reboot. It has something
to do with the history I guess
Adnan

Apple J. Kiss wrote:
> i'v got the same problem.
> ubuntu 8.10
> sbackup version 0.10.5ubuntu2
> sbackup process goes zombie whether destination is local drive or ssh over lan.
>
> thanks
>
>

[Tau (timoteo)]

I had this problem--I tried a backup to another computer via SSH, and the "sbackupd" process would change to "zombie" state. (You can see this in Gnome System Monitor by clicking the "View" menu, then "All Processes".)

I had just installed Simple Backup Config, as far as I can remember. I tried doing a backup to the default location (i.e. /var/backup) and that worked. So then I wanted to stop the backup, only way that worked was to reboot (killing sbackupd didn't stop the backup files from growing!). After the reboot, the SSH backup worked just fine. Maybe it has to do with logging in & out, or rebooting???

Hope that helps.

[netzwanze (netzwanze)]

I have this problem with all conections ssh, ftp or local. With the GUI i have the zombie state, the same by srestore.
But if i start the sbackupd running the backup.

Regards.
Jörg

[EricDHH (ericdhh)]

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04 AMD64

Since update to lucid beta the gui can only configure settings, but not run a backup. Only running "sudo sbackupd" use the gui settings an drive the backup. This works well up to karmic and does the job on both i386 karmic machines. The sbackup gui "backup now" button creates only a zombie process, the ftp test buttons works well.

sbackup Version: 0.10.5ubuntu2

[Miles Cowan (milescowan)]

Release version of Lucid broke this for me (it was working perfectly before).

[Miles Cowan (milescowan)]

Just an update: If I run 'sudo /usr/share/sbackup/sbackup' a new backup is created per the options set in the GUI, and the backup is then available in the restore GUI. Pressing "Backup Now" from the GUI creates a zombie process that terminates when I close the GUI.

[EricDHH (ericdhh)]

PING!

This bug is already there, i backup my 3 computers with the commandline "sudo sbackupd" and that is already working. Are there any ideas and solutions? Has someone try'ed out with karmic packages? Backup is an essential job, should be fixed soon.

[Gordon Dracup (gordon-dracup)]

Very new to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. Installed SBACKUP from Ubuntu Software Centre, but having the same problem when I hit the "Backup Now" button.

[[e-mail] (traderbam)]

I have Ubuntu 10.0.4.1 server 64 bit
Same problem - remotely logged in using tightvncserver/vino and when I press the "Backup Now" button the GUI freezes. The backup appears to have been done although the resulting files seem a little large - 162G backup of a 75G filesystem(?). I haven't checked what it stored.

Anyhow, I managed to kill the process from the command line with: sudo kill -9 ####

[[e-mail] (traderbam)]

Oops...my previous post was a little incorrect. I did ask it to back up a lot more than 75G so I have no reason to believe its backup process is faulty. I had not used sbackup until today. Only the freezing GUI is a definite fault.