Ubuntu server 16.04.1 LTS
Bacula 7.0.5 installed from apt
MySQL up and running
Bacula DIR, FD, and SD processes started and running

When I try to start "bconsole", it says "Connecting to Director" and then just fails with no output. After the fail, the bacula-dir process is dead and the following is found in syslog:

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bconsole: bsock.c:118 Unable to connect to Director daemon on battlestar:9101. ERR=Connection refused
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I'm looking for suggestions on what may be wrong here. I brought over my bacula-dir config from an old bacula v5 server and used that as a base for my v7.0.5 bacula-dir. I don't see anything that would cause a problem in the bacula-dir or bconsole.conf files. Thanks

Check "Password = " string in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf and /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf.
Should be identical.

See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula

I'm not sure if the passwords are supposed to match or not. This version has passwords set by default upon installation so there are individual passwords for:

DIRPASSWD - director password in bacula-dir.conf
DIRMPASSWD - console monitor password in bacula-dir.conf
SDPASSWD - Storgae daemon password found in bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf
SDMPASSWD - Restricted Director password in bacula-sd.conf
FDPASSWD - File Daemon password in bacula-fd.conf and bacula-dir.conf
FDMPASSWD - Restricted Director password in bacula-fd.conf

So in the bacula-sd.conf file, under "List Directors who are permitted to contact Storage daemon", it uses the SDPASSWD password. Same goes for the bacula-fd.conf using the FDPASSWD password.

Is that not correct? I assumed it was since that was how the default installation set it up.

Cheers


UPDATE:

On a whim I tried using the DIRPASSWD for all of it and I get the same result. I think the process is being killed before any password authentication happens.

I'm beginning to think this is a database issue. I have the following set in bacula-dir.conf

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# Generic catalog service
Catalog {
Name = MyCatalog
dbname = "bacula"; DB Address = "localhost"; dbuser = "bacula"; dbpassword = DATABASEPASSWORD
}
-------------------------------------------



When I log into MySQL using the dbuser and dbpassword above, I see the following:

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| bacula |
+--------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> use bacula;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
Database changed

mysql> show tables;
+------------------+
| Tables_in_bacula |
+------------------+
| File |
| Filename |
| MediaType |
| Path |
| RestoreObject |
| Storage |
+------------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

And the mysql daemon appears to be running but still the director quits and gets killed when I try to run bconsole. This is frustrating.