[Bug 887035] [NEW] bacula director killed because of an "out of memory" condition

[Thomas Schweikle]

Public bug reported:

/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) <no-reply at example.de>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of vh01-fd Incremental" tschweikle at example.de 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) <no-reply at example.de>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of vh02-fd Incremental" tschweikle at example.de 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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) <no-reply at example.de>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of ilx01-fd Incremental" tschweikle at example.de 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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) <no-reply at example.de>" -s "Bacula: Backup OK of ilx01-fd Incremental" tschweikle at example.de 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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 at localhost>" -s "Bacula daemon message" root at 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)

** Affects: bacula (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric

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