Hi,
I have been running amanda for the past 3 weeks and it has  been
working very well. I usually insert a new tape every day, but
yesterday I did not change the tape, today I did an "amflush" to
write the holding disk content to tape and I noticed that amflush
never finishes. If I list the processes I see amflush taking 98% cpu
usage, and there is no disk activity, this went on for 4 hours, the
amflush log follows:

amflush: datestamp 20021227
driver: pid 11354 executable driver version 2.4.3
driver: send-cmd time 0.005 to taper: START-TAPER 20021227
taper: pid 11355 executable taper version 2.4.3
taper: page size is 4096
taper: buffer size is 32768
taper: buffer[00] at 0x4008d000
taper: buffer[01] at 0x40095000
taper: buffer[02] at 0x4009d000
taper: buffer[03] at 0x400a5000
taper: buffer[04] at 0x400ad000
taper: buffer[05] at 0x400b5000
taper: buffer[06] at 0x400bd000
taper: buffer[07] at 0x400c5000
taper: buffer[08] at 0x400cd000
taper: buffer[09] at 0x400d5000
taper: buffer[10] at 0x400dd000
taper: buffer[11] at 0x400e5000
taper: buffer[12] at 0x400ed000
taper: buffer[13] at 0x400f5000
taper: buffer[14] at 0x400fd000
taper: buffer[15] at 0x40105000
taper: buffer[16] at 0x4010d000
taper: buffer[17] at 0x40115000
taper: buffer[18] at 0x4011d000
taper: buffer[19] at 0x40125000
taper: buffer structures at 0x4012d000 for 240 bytes
taper: read label `tape-11' date `20021227'
taper: wrote label `tape-11' date `20021227'



The only way to stop this is to kill the process and run amcleanup
which returns this e-mail:


*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

The dumps were flushed to tape tape-11.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: tape-12.


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER
STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------
---
blp          /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
blp          /home         NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
expo-2       /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
expo-2       /home         NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
expo-2       /home2        NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
expo-6       /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
expo-6       -016/maxdat   NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
gw1          /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
gw2          /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
gw2          /ftphome      NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
gw2          /home         NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
mail         /             NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---
mail         /home         NO FILE TO FLUSH --------------------------
---

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)



I use amanda 2.4.3 on Redhat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-14) with a Onstream
50 Gig tape.

Thanks for your help.

Roger Grant