Check for the nsrexecd process.  Is that what's crashing?  Look for
recent dates in /nsr/cores/nsrexecd.  I've had a problem with it
crashing fairly regularly when a savegrp starts.  It's caused by the
nsrauth stuff added in 7.3.  Once that goes down, all the things you
said are true, nsradmin, nwadmin, NMC all stop working.
I'd like to hope you're just seeing that and not something else.  I'm 

Steve
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:40 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Networker hangs completely at times
> 
> Has anyone else but us seen regular complete hangs of 
> networker in release 7.3? Backups hang, and the system 
> becomes unresponsive, NMC, nsrwatch and nwadmin all hang. 
> After a while nothing happens in the logs.. Before it dies 
> completely, messages such as these can be seen in the daemon.log:
> 
> 03/29/06 18:01:13 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation 448]. 
> Initiated operation `Clean device /dev/rmt/2cbn using 
> cleaning slot 430'.
> 03/29/06 18:01:13 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation 449]. 
> Initiated operation `Clean device /dev/rmt/1cbn using 
> cleaning slot 430'.
> 03/29/06 18:03:56 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation # 445]. 
> Automatically terminating operation `OP_CLEAN', instance 445, 
> on jukebox `Osato'. Cannot allocate the 1 required device(s).
> 03/29/06 18:03:56 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation # 445]. 
> Finished with
> status: failed
> 03/29/06 19:11:03 nsrlcpd #1: Jukebox `Osato' is exiting. The 
> jukebox is no longer managed by nsrlcpd.
> 
> Is there a problem with cleaning devices in conjunction with 
> that many savesets/drives are busy writing? Is this some kind 
> of deadlock state?
> 
> As usual, our networker support has been less than helpful 
> with this issue.
> 
> //Oscar
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