We've seen the error message "Cannot find slot -9999 in operation slots
list"
Our fix was to edit the jukebox config and scroll down towards the bottom
and
there are a couple of fields you may need to clear out. "Loaded volumes" and
"Loaded slots".
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> From: "Legato NetWorker discussion"
> <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>@INTERNET@HHC On Behalf Of "Peter
> Faber"
> <faber AT INFOSUN.FMI.UNI-PASSAU DOT DE>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] nsjb stalling
>
> Hi list!
>
> I've got a problem (nsrjb doesn't do anything anymore) with my networker
> software that is partially due to my poor understanding of networker
> tools:
> I'm running networker 5.5.3 on Solaris 8 with a HP Surestore 24x6 DDS3
> jukebox (actually 2, but 1 is out of order at the moment).
> I just wanted to recover a file from a tape whose browse time had
> expired. So I unmounted the currently loaded tape using nwadmin,
> inserted the old tape, and loaded it using mtx (poor choice, as it seems
> now), tried to use scanner on that tape (which actually gave me some
> ssids, but took way to long to be supervised all the time). I left scanner
> running searching for a certain file
> (/usr/sbin/nsr/scanner -S <ssid> /dev/rmt/2cbn \
> -x uasm -r -nv -m /home=/tmp/pff/networker/ <filename>)
> when I left my office -- not heeding the fact that the next incremental
> backup would probably get confused by that foreign tape in the autoloader.
> So, the next day, networker complains about not having enough tapes in
> the autoloader; however, just replacing the original tape and doing an
> inventory didn't help, because the inventory just hangs and does nothing
> (the jukebox remains quiet). Trying to load a certain tape just yields the
> error message
> "Cannot find slot -9999 in operation slots list"
> (the jukebox itself is OK, I can [un]load with mtx).
> That's the point where I decided to reboot (another poor idea, I guess).
> It was just then that I realized that It would have been a nice idea to
> issue an "nsrjb -Hv"... :-(
> So, I did this after reboot... however, it doesn't do anything for >20
> mins.
> So: did I totally screw up my database? What can I do? Does anyone
> have any idea?
>
> I attach the output of "nsrjb -H -v -v -v".
>
> Thanks for any hint!
> PFF
> --
> Peter Faber, faber AT fmi.uni-passau DOT de
>
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> - nsrjb.output << File: nsrjb.output >>
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