When I run the btape test suite it completes no problem. I only get this
bug when I run btape fill over multiple tapes. It happens when it
switches tapes.

If the current tape in the drive is not the tape from slot 1. When it
loads the tape in slot 1 I get the error then it carries on no problem.
Once it switches to the tape in slot 2 I get the same fatal error but it
completes the fill test without issues. Also running unfill does not
show the data being incorrect. If the tape in the drive is the tape from
slot 1 I only receive the error when it switches to the tape in slot 2.

Just before I put this project on hold I had made the decision to ignore
the error and push on to see if it was just a btape issue.

Good to know that I am no longer alone.

H 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Nordin [mailto:Lars_Nordin AT mcafee DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:03 AM
To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Btape fill test fatal error WEOF

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:03:43 Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote:
> Lars,
>
> First off I found the first similarity. I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS and
I
> am having the same issue. I never had a working installation before so
> not ground for comparison.
>
> If you are not too far down the rabbit hole maybe you could try
another
> flavor of Linux before putting too much time into this issue. This
could
> be something as simple as Ubuntu being the issue.

It seems that we are not alone and it is not just Ubuntu.

I submitted a Mantis ticket for the btape bug but just for the fact that
btape 
reports a fatal error but still says that the test passed at the end -
this is 
a bug with btape.
I figured I would ask if there other parameters to change and try that
before 
filing a bug for btape fatal error itself.
Well, some one has already added a note to my report and he is using
Oracle's 
RHEL clone and a different tape drive.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 (0004283) jbroughton (reporter) - 2009-06-10 18:27
 http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1309#c4283 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Verified by doing the following:
A) rewind tape, weof, then ran btape fill and got:
10-Jun 11:19 btape:  Fatal Error at dev.c:1705 because:
dev.c:1704 Attempt to WEOF on non-appendable Volume
B) Just in case, I rewound the tape again, weof, then created a volume
on
the tape from bconsole, and ran the btape fill, and recieved the same
error
message.

Running Bacula 3.0.1 on Oracle Unbreakable Linux 5.2.  Tape is a DDS-4.


> Also I am not 100% positive yet if this WEOF is actually a problem. Or
> just an erroneous error message.
>
> H




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