bacula director killed because of an "out of memory" condition

Bug #887035 reported by Thomas Schweikle
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bacula (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:20:12 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:20 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <email address hidden>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of vh01-fd Incremental" <email address hidden> failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:20:21 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:20 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <email address hidden>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of vh02-fd Incremental" <email address hidden> failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:23:26 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:23 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:25:36 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:25 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <email address hidden>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of ilx01-fd Incremental" <email address hidden> failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:28:25 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:28 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:28:37 bacula bacula-dir: bsock.c:339 Socket has errors=1 on call to client:192.168.180.45:36131
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:29:28 bacula-dir: last message repeated 2 times
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:29:28 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:29 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <email address hidden>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of ilx01-fd Incremental" <email address hidden> failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:33:29 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:33 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:38:15 bacula bacula-dir: bsock.c:339 Socket has errors=1 on call to client:192.168.180.45:36131
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:38:29 bacula-dir: last message repeated 2 times
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:38:29 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:38 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:43:25 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:43 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:48:07 bacula bacula-dir: bsock.c:339 Socket has errors=1 on call to client:192.168.180.45:36131
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:48:25 bacula-dir: last message repeated 2 times
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:48:25 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:48 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:53:25 bacula bacula-dir: 07-Nov 01:53 Message delivery ERROR: open mail pipe /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h zarafa.example.de -f "(Bacula) <root@localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root@localhost failed: ERR=Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:55:23 bacula kernel: [1908301.946561] [18635] 104 18635 1587596 474115 0 0 0 bacula-dir
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:55:23 bacula kernel: [1908301.946570] Out of memory: Kill process 18635 (bacula-dir) score 969 or sacrifice child
/var/log/syslog.1:Nov 7 01:55:23 bacula kernel: [1908301.996548] Killed process 18635 (bacula-dir) total-vm:6350384kB, anon-rss:1896460kB, file-rss:0kB

This is once a week now, or, if I force full backups, once a day. I did not see it with Ubuntu 11.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bacula-server 5.0.3-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-virtual 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 7 10:01:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bacula
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-10 (27 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Thomas Schweikle (tps) wrote :
Changed in bacula (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Thomas Schweikle (tps)
Changed in bacula (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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