Quoting Salvatore Enrico Indiogine <hindiogine AT gmail DOT com>:

I have the same problem as Luis when i run amcheck
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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amcheck-server: could not get changer info: cannot determine first slot

And in my /tmp/amanda/mtx-zd-mtx.***.debug file i have :

10:14:19 Using config file /var/lib/amanda/test/changerfile.conf
10:14:19 Arg info:
         $# = 1
         $0 = "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx"
         $1 = "-info"
10:14:19 Running: /usr/sbin/mtx status
10:14:19 Exit code: 1
         Stderr:
failed to set sg timeout - Operation not permitted
10:14:19 Exit (2) -> <none> cannot determine first slot
chg-zd-mtx: pid 8356 finish time Tue May  9 10:14:19 2006

How can i change the permission (i don't run amcheck in "root") ?

Best regards

2006/5/8, Luis Rodrigues <luis AT ess.co DOT at>:

I'm getting an error while running chg-zd-mtx: "<none> cannot determine first slot"

Does anyone have any ideia.

When it happened to me, it was caused by incorrect permissions and
user:group for /dev/sg1 the generic SCSI device file for the changer.

I had to change them from root:root to root:disk and from 600 to 660.


Check the log files: /etc/amanda or /var/log/amanda


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