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nwrecover on RHEL 5 stopped working
We went to run nwrecover on an RHEL 5 box and received the following error after selecting the Server:
# nwrecover
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
30022:nwrecover: Encountered fatal error: Object "%s" does not have windowed ancestor
Exiting
We tried running this as non root, and received the same error.
Any solution to this problem?
# nwrecover
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
30022:nwrecover: Encountered fatal error: Object "%s" does not have windowed ancestor
Exiting
We tried running this as non root, and received the same error.
Any solution to this problem?
548
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Posted July 21st, 2009 09:00
Yes, x server is running, and confirmed by being able to run firefox.
(We're sshing into the box)548
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Posted July 21st, 2009 11:00
Additional information --
EMC had me de install and reinstall the rpm's, to no effect.
However --
networker -s {servername} eliminated the problem. Not a good solution, but a start.548
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Posted July 21st, 2009 19:00
Is it networker -s OR nwrecover -s? We would generally use nwrecover -s if it is not able to find the backup server.548
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Posted July 22nd, 2009 03:00
You are sshing from box A to box B (with RHEL 5 and NW installed on it)? Then you are trying to run nwrecover command through ssh session?
If this is the scenario try to do this:
1. On box A allow connection to the X server: xhost +
2. ssh from A to B with the following options: ssh -X -Y user@boxB nwrecover548
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Posted July 22nd, 2009 06:00
Have you tried logging onto the console of the RHEL 5 and NW installed and running nwrecover from there? If it works then you'll know for sure that it has something to do with X11 & ssh.
I just did test restores on a couple of RHEL 5.3 running NW 7.4.4 by logging on remotely via ssh and they worked for me.548
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Posted July 22nd, 2009 11:00
May need to export your display in addition to having your X-window app open.
export DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx.xx:0.0 (where xx.xx is your local machine's ip)548
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Posted July 27th, 2009 11:00
I am also seeing this problem. The only thing that works for me is the -s flag.
Setting the DISPLAY variable to.0 makes no difference.
nwrecover version 7.5.1 build 269
RHEL5.3 x86_64548
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Posted January 15th, 2010 04:00
Hello,
Try to make a file /nsr/res/servers whith the backup server name in it.
Cheers
Fred
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548
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Posted July 21st, 2009 09:00
Nwrecover is the NetWorker graphical recover interface, do you have an X Windows
application installed? If not, you'll have to run "recover" command.