Connecting to ClientService of "WINDOWSPC" failed: Sending Identity to client "WINDOWSPC" failed. Retrying soon

general discussion
1

I built version 1.4.7 on my Debian Wheezy system. I am using a powerpc cpu. Build went without a hitch and I installed with ‘checkinstall’ and copied the startup script as per the docs. The server sees the client but when I tried to test a file backup the log reports:

INFO Connecting to ClientService of “WINDOWSPC” failed: Sending Identity to client “WINDOWSPC” failed. Retrying soon…

and no backup ever starts.

Also from config.log

Configured with: …/src/configure -v --with-pkgversion=‘Debian 4.6.3-14’ --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-secureplt --disable-softfloat --enable-targets=powerpc-linux,powerpc64-linux --with-cpu=default32 --with-long-double-128 --enable-checking=release –build=powerpc-linux-gnu --host=powerpc-linux-gnu --target=powerpc-linux-gnu

2

Is that CPU in big endian mode and does it show the big endian warning on the status page?

3

Do you mean do I get this message?

UrBackup is currently only partially tested on big endian systems. In particular image backups and restores have not been tested.
UrBackup has been put into testing mode. This means UrBackup will always log debug messages. If you want to help make UrBackup available on big endian systems please report all problems to the forums or to our issue tracker. Thank you for your help!

Yes I get this message. I am testing by making a simple file backup.

4

No problem. I just wanted to know if it a) detects it is on a big endian system b) the system really is a big endian system. I only read that on wikipedia PowerPC - Wikipedia . I don’t have a big endian chip to test on. Previous testing was done on a Thecus NAS and with that the file backup worked.

5

Thanks. Yes the powerpc memory architecture is backwards.
This looks more like a communication problem. Is the server just reading the stream from the client and stacking it LSB to highest address space? That would cause a real inability to etacnummoc. Perhaps a simple fix? Point to the code and I will sniff it out when I have some spare time.

6

Hello,

did you ever solve this? I am experiencing the same problem.

Greetings,
Hendrik

7

Hendrik,

I gave up on this long ago. Running UrBackup on the PowerPC platform is simply not going to work unless someone has done a re-write of the code base.

If they have, I don’t know about but would be willing to give it a try. UrBackup is a truly great program.

Phil