Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
No, I never did try that. I may if I get time. Things are busy right now, so now that it's working again, I'm good. :) j- k- On Thursday 06 October 2005 13:14, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote: > > And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports). > > > > T

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote: And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports). This error actually happened with *two* different tapes, and in both cases, when they errored, they had the same "last volume bytes" value. Have you tried running btape to see what it says? ---

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:18, Kern Sibbald wrote: > This is somewhat of a wild shot, but I recently saw a kernel bug fix > against the aic7xxx drivers. If I remember right (I'm a bit hazy on this) > there was a problem after writing 35GB of data. According to lspcidrake (Mandrake's lspci ex

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Josh, On 06.10.2005 00:38, Joshua Kugler wrote: OK, a little more info on this weird occurrence. what you describe looks like a driver or hardware problem to me. Alhough I can't be sure, I'm not able to imagine anything bacula-related leading to such problems. If you can reproduce the pro

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
This is somewhat of a wild shot, but I recently saw a kernel bug fix against the aic7xxx drivers. If I remember right (I'm a bit hazy on this) there was a problem after writing 35GB of data. On Thursday 06 October 2005 02:12, Joshua Kugler wrote: > And yet more info (long, with lots of job repo

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Kugler
And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports). This error actually happened with *two* different tapes, and in both cases, when they errored, they had the same "last volume bytes" value. This seems to be tied to network errors somehow. Observer: The job before this one loaded tape 0009.

More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Kugler
OK, a little more info on this weird occurrence. I unmounted the tape in the drive (0010), and mounted the next one (0011). I then initiated a job, and Bacula unloaded 0011 and loaded 0010 again. But it forwarded to the end of the data, and wrote it all just fine. Do I have a weird one-time g

[Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Kugler
I sent this yesterday and got no replies. I'll try to include more detail this time. Server version (SD and Dir): 1.36.1 Client version(s): 1.36.0 (on all: Linux, Mac, Windows) This error is being generated from Windows, Mac, and Linux clients This error suddenly popped up, with no changes to a