With debug activated it should have log that in /var/log/bareos/mtx-error.log usually. also it might be in some /var/lib/bareos/mtx-err*
On Thursday, 20 March 2025 at 12:58:38 UTC+1 Otto Brandstaetter wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > > thanks a lot for your answer. the script was up-to-date but digging a > little bit into it made me to set debugging on. then I could see in the log: > > 20250320-11:53:05 Doing mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/sch0-nst status ... > 20250320-11:53:05 /dev/tape/by-id/sch0-nst: No such file or directory > > so i looked around a little bit and set the right device, now everything > working again, THANKS! > > what is a little bit confusing (for me) is that the script did not throw > an error or something. I think this would be helpful as one could > immediately find out that the device path is not correct. > > Best regards and thanks again, > > Otto > > > Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) schrieb am Donnerstag, 20. März 2025 um > 11:18:13 UTC+1: > >> Hi Otto, >> >> Mainly the changes in mtx-changer are in the following commit >> https://github.com/bareos/bareos/commit/68710b7960 >> We remove the perl usage in favor of awk and a few cleanup. >> But nothing in terms of usage should have changed. >> >> What might have been happened, is that you touch previous version (check >> also mtx-changer.conf) which would have not been upgraded by the >> installation package. >> Would you mind to check this ? >> >> Regards >> On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 20:22:44 UTC+1 Otto Brandstaetter wrote: >> >>> Hi, I have been using bareos with different hardware since several years >>> - and I have some scripts, for example to re-initialize tapes. >>> >>> In the past I used for example /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/mtx-changer >>> /dev/sch0 load 8 /dev/tape/by-id/sch0-nst 0 after execution, the next >>> command in the script was executed. >>> >>> But since somewhen (last year?) after execution the script shows done, >>> but does not exit. Seems to be hardware-independant as I tried with a dell >>> changer and a hpe changer. >>> >>> I am working on debian 12 with (now) bareos 24, installed it using apt >>> from download.bareos.org/current/Debian_12 >>> Any help would be appreciated as I could not find anything regarding >>> this... >>> Cheers, Otto >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/94337486-d55c-4b68-b10f-993a60b3a03en%40googlegroups.com.
