On Thursday 04 September 2008 20:24:34 mark.bergman AT uphs.upenn DOT edu wrote:
> 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.
You might try upgrading to version 1.3.12, which Bob Hetzel has informed us
should be fixed (as you have probably seen by his email).
Kern
>
> 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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