I have that same problem also. It looks to me that something is up with 
mtx. If you change tapes in the changer, and then manually run mtx -f 
/dev/sg0 status, the first time, no slots are reported, and the second 
time slots are reported. I just run it twice now.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.


Vladislav Korotkov wrote:
>
> Sometimes after I issue `update slots’ command I get:
>
> No slots in changer to scan.
>
> When I run the command once (twice) again , everything is fine, the 
> slots’ status is updated:
>
> *update slots
>
> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
>
> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
>
> Automatically selected Storage: Autochanger
>
> Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at tmmsk.kosmos.cti.ru:9103 ...
>
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
>
> Device "Drive-1" has 0 slots.
>
> No slots in changer to scan.
>
> *update slots
>
> Automatically selected Storage: Autochanger
>
> Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at tmmsk.kosmos.cti.ru:9103 ...
>
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
>
> Device "Drive-1" has 23 slots.
>
> Connecting to Storage daemon Autochanger at tmmsk.kosmos.cti.ru:9103 ...
>
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "881ABN" updated to reference slot 2.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "882ABN" updated to reference slot 3.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "883ABN" updated to reference slot 4.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "884ABN" updated to reference slot 5.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "886ABN" updated to reference slot 7.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "887ABN" updated to reference slot 8.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "888ABN" updated to reference slot 9.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "889ABN" updated to reference slot 10.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "890ABN" updated to reference slot 12.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "891ABN" updated to reference slot 13.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "892ABN" updated to reference slot 14.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "893ABN" updated to reference slot 15.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "894ABN" updated to reference slot 16.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "895ABN" updated to reference slot 17.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "896ABN" updated to reference slot 18.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "897ABN" updated to reference slot 19.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "898ABN" updated to reference slot 20.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "899ABN" updated to reference slot 21.
>
> Catalog record for Volume "880ABN" updated to reference slot 1.
>
> I have IBM TS3100 Autochanger device. Bacula version is 2.4.2.
>
> Could you please advise how to fix this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vladislav Korotkov
>
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>
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