In the message dated: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:37:04 +0200,
The pithy ruminations from Kern Sibbald on 
<Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] No slots in changer to scan.> were:
=> Hello,
=> 
=> Are you saying that this is a bug in mtx?   If so, do you know what versions

Hmmm....I'm running mtx version 1.2.18rel.

I've used the same version of mtx, on the same server, with two different Dell 
PV132T tape drives. 

With the first drive, mtx always worked the first time ("worked", as in 
ran without errors...clearly, if the library is busy indexing tapes, the 
results from mtx won't be useful). With the second drive, mtx alway returns an 
error the first time it's run after being idle for a while (some undetermined 
amount of time), and the works fine in the second invocation.

As I said, the server hardware & software remain unchanged--the tape labrary 
hardware was the only change to cause the different behavior in mtx.

Mark

=> have the problem and in which version it is fixed?  Having the version 
=> information is rather important because I imagine that most people such as 
=> myself use the version that is installed by the distribution.
=> 
=> Also, I'm wondering if a configuration problem isn't causing problems.  
=> Normally for doing an update slots, you should be using the Autochanger 
=> resource -- i.e. the name of the autochanger and not the name of a 
particular 
=> drive.  The output below seems to be referring to a particular drive such as 
=> Drive-0 or Drive-1, and I am wondering if that is correct.  The silly 
command 
=> prompt for "update slots" seems to ask for a drive number (I have two 
drives, 
=> and think this prompt really should not be there and is probably ignored), 
=> but when I do an update slots, it never prints anything about an individual 
=> drive name, but always refers to the autochanger (mine is called 
=> LTO-changer).
=> 
=> Best regards,
=> 
=> Kern
=> 
=> On Thursday 04 September 2008 16:29:02 Bob Hetzel wrote:
=> > Previously, "Vladislav Korotkov" <v.korotkov AT cti DOT ru> said
=> >
=> > > 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.
=> >
=> > I got this behavior whenever I opened my tape library.  Recently, I
=> > reported it to the mtx-general mailing list and there is now a new
=> > version available at
=> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4626.
=> >
=> > I suggest any of you with a this issue give it a go and report back to
=> > the mtx-general mailing list.  I've been running the new 1.3.12 version
=> > for a couple weeks now without any negative side effects.
=> >
=> > I'm cc: the bacula developers list in case they're not aware of this
=> > newer version yet and would like to test with it as well.
=> >
=> >     Bob
=> >

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