Bareos Update from 23.1.1 to 24.0.1, bconsole api 2 Mode Problem

[Stefan Harbich]

Hello,
i noticed that when I execute the following commands in bconsole, it closes immediately afterwards.

...

@dsme01:~# bconsole
Connecting to Director bareos.intern.harnet.de:9101
 Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3
1000 OK: bareos-dir Version: 24.0.1~pre53.6ffc81313 (03 February 2025)
Bareos community build (UNSUPPORTED).
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You are connected using the default console

Enter a period (.) to cancel a command.
*.api 2
{
  "id": null,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "api": 2
  }
}
@dsme01:~# systemctl status bareos-dir.service
● bareos-director.service - Bareos Director Daemon service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bareos-director.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-02-08 22:59:43 CET; 11s ago
       Docs: man:bareos-dir(8)
    Process: 3237146 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bareos-dir -f (code=exited, status=127)
   Main PID: 3237146 (code=exited, status=127)
@dsme01:~# systemctl status bareos-dir.service
● bareos-director.service - Bareos Director Daemon service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bareos-director.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-02-08 23:00:13 CET; 187ms ago
       Docs: man:bareos-dir(8)
   Main PID: 3239151 (bareos-dir)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38446)
     Memory: 4.3M
     CGroup: /system.slice/bareos-director.service
             └─3239151 /usr/sbin/bareos-dir -f

Feb 08 23:00:13 dsme01 systemd[1]: Started Bareos Director Daemon service.
@dsme01:~# bconsole
Connecting to Director bareos.intern.harnet.de:9101
 Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3
1000 OK: bareos-dir Version: 24.0.1~pre53.6ffc81313 (03 February 2025)
Bareos community build (UNSUPPORTED).
Get professional support from https://www.bareos.com
You are connected using the default console

Enter a period (.) to cancel a command.
*.api json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": null,
  "result": {
    "api": 2
  }
}
@dsme01:~# systemctl status bareos-dir.service
● bareos-director.service - Bareos Director Daemon service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bareos-director.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-02-08 23:00:43 CET; 20s ago
       Docs: man:bareos-dir(8)
    Process: 3239151 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bareos-dir -f (code=exited, status=127)
   Main PID: 3239151 (code=exited, status=127)
@dsme01:~# systemctl status bareos-dir.service
● bareos-director.service - Bareos Director Daemon service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bareos-director.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-02-08 23:01:13 CET; 2s ago
       Docs: man:bareos-dir(8)
   Main PID: 3239759 (bareos-dir)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38446)
     Memory: 4.3M
     CGroup: /system.slice/bareos-director.service
             └─3239759 /usr/sbin/bareos-dir -f

Feb 08 23:01:13 dsme01 systemd[1]: Stopped Bareos Director Daemon service.
Feb 08 23:01:13 dsme01 systemd[1]: Started Bareos Director Daemon service.

...

The director closes immediately afterwards and starts again after about 1 minute.

I would be happy if I could get support.

Kind Regards

Stefan Harbich

[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

As previously said, I've tried to reproduce your errors from debian 11 getting bareos upgraded from 19 to 24 without any special glitches (configuration to adapt as referenced) but nothing else and everything was working.

When we count the number of troubles you seems to have, on that system, it look severely broken, maybe time to re-install from scratch ?

After all Debian 11 is dying and will not last very long ( its regular support phase concluded on August 14, 2024)