Re: [Networker] Networker hangs completely at times

Oscar Olsson wrote:
> Has anyone else but us seen regular complete hangs of networker in
> release 7.3? Backups hang, and the system becomes unresponsive, NMC,
> nsrwatch and nwadmin all hang. After a while nothing happens in the
> logs.. Before it dies completely, messages such as these can be seen
> in the daemon.log:
>
> 03/29/06 18:01:13 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation 448]. Initiated
> operation `Clean device /dev/rmt/2cbn using cleaning slot 430'.
> 03/29/06 18:01:13 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation 449]. Initiated
> operation `Clean device /dev/rmt/1cbn using cleaning slot 430'.
> 03/29/06 18:03:56 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation # 445].
> Automatically terminating operation `OP_CLEAN', instance 445, on
> jukebox `Osato'. Cannot allocate the 1 required device(s).
> 03/29/06 18:03:56 nsrd: [Jukebox `Osato', operation # 445]. Finished
> with status: failed
> 03/29/06 19:11:03 nsrlcpd #1: Jukebox `Osato' is exiting. The jukebox
> is no longer managed by nsrlcpd.
>
> Is there a problem with cleaning devices in conjunction with that many
> savesets/drives are busy writing? Is this some kind of deadlock state?
>
> As usual, our networker support has been less than helpful with this
> issue.
>
Talk to support and reference case 536020.  It's a known issue with
nsrlcpd crashing, I've been beating them up on this for nearly 2 months
now (and they know it's a problem and have reproduced it in their lab).

Nsrlcpd is one of the new daemons in 7.3 to manage the library.  In my
case, it's causing library resets every time we open the load port in
addition to its crashing periodically.

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