Jason,

I've had the exact situation and I traced it to the files
having mandatory locking on,  run 'lsof' or 'pfiles' on
the process idling.  If this is the case, you can get around
by adding to bp.conf 

LOCKED_FILE_ACTION = SKIP

-ravi

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jason Ahrens wrote:

ahrens>I am a relativly new NetBackup user. I seem to find that occasionally, 
some 
ahrens>jobs 'idle' idefinitly. That is, all the processes are running, the 
backup is 
ahrens>still marked as 'active' but there is no data flowing at all. I end up 
ahrens>killing these jobs, with partial backups. This is obviously not 
acceptable.
ahrens>
ahrens>I have tried attaching a 'truss' (Solaris servers and clients) to see if 
ahrens>anything is going on. The systems seem to be in a wait state (come up as 
ahrens>sleeping)
ahrens>
ahrens>Anyone have any advice as to what might be the reason for these 
mysterious 
ahrens>idling processes?
ahrens>
ahrens>Jason
ahrens>


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