Backuppc Error on Install...

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by matthewjamesnewton, Oct 29, 2007.

  1. matthewjamesnewton

    matthewjamesnewton New Member

    Hi,

    I'm trying to follow along with: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc

    And after I try to run (as root): apt-get install backuppc rsync libfile-rsyncp-perl smbfs

    I get....

    Setting up backuppc (2.1.2-2ubuntu5) ...
    * Starting backuppc... 2007-10-29 09:29:35 $Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail' is not a valid executable program
    invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed.
    dpkg: error processing backuppc (--configure):
    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Setting up smbfs (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.3) ...
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    backuppc
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    It looks like its some what working because I'm able to login but once In I see the menu options but at the top of the page it says...

    "Unable to connect to server."
    Any ideas?
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's the output of
    Code:
    which sendmail
    and
    Code:
    ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
    ?
     
  3. matthewjamesnewton

    matthewjamesnewton New Member

    Sorry for my delay, that hard drive actually died so I'm doing this on an other install. I follow the instructions and I get through them with out any errors until I run a...

    dpkg-reconfigure backuppc

    It returns this...

    root@callisto:/mnt# dpkg-reconfigure backuppc
    * Stopping backuppc... No process in pidfile `/var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid' found running; none killed.
    [ ok ]
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/backuppc.postinst: line 45: /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache-include_all.sh: No such file or directory
    root@callisto:/mnt#

    I'm able to pull up the Web interface which still says "Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server."

    The logs on the website only say... "Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG, modified 2007-10-31 10:51:55

    2007-10-31 10:44:03 Reading hosts file
    2007-10-31 10:44:03 Added host localhost to backup list
    2007-10-31 10:44:03 BackupPC started, pid 29374
    2007-10-31 10:44:03 Running BackupPC_trashClean (pid=29375)
    2007-10-31 10:44:03 Next wakeup is 2007-10-31 11:00:00
    2007-10-31 10:51:55 Got signal TERM... cleaning up
    "

    Any Ideas?
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Can you try this?
    Code:
    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade
     
  5. matthewjamesnewton

    matthewjamesnewton New Member

    I kept on going with the install and it just started to work...

    Thanks for your help.

    MN
     

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