Kern, thanks for your quick reply.
On Thursday 03 November 2005 19:33, Kern Sibbald wrote: > It looks like you stumbled into a change they made in the 2.6 kernel, > which will undoubtely cause a lot of people a *lot* of pain. The change > prohibits a program from opening a drive in read/write mode if there is > no volume in the drive. You are most likely right. This behavior seems to have started since I told my streamer to eject the tapes automatically when a new tape was requested. I will tell the Debian package maintainer. Perhaps there is a patch even for the 1.36.2 version which can be included in Debian/Sarge. (The policy usually forbids shipping new upstream releases in the same Debian stable release. So a source code patch is the common way to deal with such issues. Perhaps that part of the 1.38 version can be included in the 1.36 version?) > If this is what is causing your problem, you can solve it by: > 1. Ensuring that there is some tape in the drive befort starting the SD, > and before issuing a "mount" command in the console. Strangely the tape gets ejected after a backup job is done. It would be less bad if the tape would just stay in and Bacula complained that it needed a new tape when the next backup job starts. > 2. Upgrade to version 1.38.0 (you might wait for a Win32 fix if you have > Win32 clients). Fortunately there are no Windows clients in my network. :) So you say the 1.38 includes a fix for the kernel problem? Good to know. Regards Christoph -- ~ ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 3 lines --100%-- 3,41 All ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
