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Re: [Networker] Networker hangs completely at times

2006-04-01 10:08:17
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker hangs completely at times
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:59:20 -0500
On Apr 1, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Oscar Olsson wrote:

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Stan Horwitz wrote:

SH> Check to make sure the settings on your tape library do not conflict with SH> the settings you have in NetWorker for handling cleaning tapes. I have not SH> seen the behavior you describe, especially since I am not running NetWorker SH> 7.3, but with the Sony PetaSite tape library we use and NetWorker 7.2.1, if SH> the tape library has any configuration entries at all to handle cleaning SH> tapes, it will not allow NetWorker to mount a cleaning tape and NetWorker SH> reacts by refusing to do anything else with tape mounts until it can satisfy SH> the cleaning request, which has the non-good effect of hanging just about
SH> everything, but I have never seen nsrwatch or nwadmin fail in that
SH> situation.

Sorry, but no, that's not the problem. The T950 is completely agnostic
about cleaning tapes.

Have you checked for other issues involving that tape library, such as connectivy problems? Does the /var/adm/messages log show anything out of the ordinary? Can you see the tape library and all its devices with the inquire command?

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