Hi,

29.06.2008 17:25, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I am stumped. Previously I was able to successfully test the both drive
> and changer using btape. Then I started getting I/O errors...
> 
> I was going to redo the bacula set up but so far I can even get to that
> point. I can't even get a status from the tape device /dev/nst0. I made
> sure all the bacula-daemons did not start on a reboot but nst0 is still
> busy - all I get from mt -f /dev/nst0 is /dev/st0: Device or resource
> busy.

You can check with lsof which process has the device open.

If that doesn't tell you anything, try this:

find /proc/ -wholename '/proc/*/fd/*' -ls | grep st0

That should tell you which process (id) uses the device.

Arno

> Using Ubuntu 8.04, Bacula 2.2.8 and a DLT8000.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers or suggestions.
> 
> --james
> 
> 
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