BackupPC error

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for
> years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC
> failed to start.  Its log file has this:
>
> 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hosts file
> 2011-08-11 08:00:25 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory
>
> But the hosts file exists.  I haven't touched it in a long time.
>
> -rw-r--r--. 1 backuppc backuppc 2301 Jan 12  2011 /etc/BackupPC/hosts
>
> The version of BackupPC I'm running is BackupPC-3.2.1-1.fc15.x86_64.
> Does anyone have any hints about why it's failing?

I was having the exact same problem (wouldn't start even though
systemctl said it was). I never found the error like you did but I
just reinstalled and moved (restored) all my *.rpmsave config files
and it worked again.