Dan Langille wrote: > Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> I have a problem mounting tape right after booting fedora 7 with >> bacula 2.2.8. I would appreciate to get some comments before issueing >> a bug report. >> >> After booting without a tape volume I insert a tape in the tape >> streamer and issue a mount command. > > Has the tape settled by this time? I ask because I know DLT drives will > go back and forth over the tape for a while, looking, finding out the > density of the tape, etc. If the tape has not settled, wait for it to > settle, then issue the mount. Any difference? > > > After 8-10 minutes I get an error message that the tape >> could not be mounted. The bconsole shows the following: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]# strace ./bconsole 2> mount.log >> Connecting to Director 192.168.1.104:9101 >> 1000 OK: epo-dir Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) >> Enter a period to cancel a command. >> *mount Tape >> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog >> Using Catalog "MyCatalog" >> 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:433 Unable to open device "Tape" >> (/dev/nst0): ERR=No such file or directory
I think I found an explanation to the phenomenon. It is not a bacula issue it is more likely a udev issue because /dev/nst0 was not created after boot and consequently bacula could not open it. -- Erik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
