++ 07/01/02 09:36 -0800 - Frank Wojcik: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > taper: FATAL cannot allocate shared memory > > amflush: ERROR Cannot flush without tape. Try again. > > > > I use a 7 day dump/tapecycle with 8 "tapes". > > The OS is FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE and the Amanda-source is from a > > cvs-checkout last friday (4th of january). > > The OS of the clients is all FreeBSD ranging from 4.2-STABLE to > > 4.5-PRERELEASE. > > I see this problem on FreeBSD and Solaris. What has happened is that either > a) some taper processes are hanging around (check ps), or, more likely, > b) some shared memory segments are hanging around. You can check this out > by making SURE that no Amanda processes are running, and running the command: > 'ipcs -m'. If you see a line like: > > m 196609 0 --rwa------ operator operator > > (operator being my, and I suspect your, Amanda user), > then you need to clear out these memory segments using 'ipcrm'. > Also make sure not to delete any segments being used by root.
Okay, thanks. It's working fine again now. However, I needed to decrease the tapebufs in amanda.conf in order to stop it from complaining about it in every status mail. Is this normal on FreeBSD-systems? -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind Regards, Tommy Eriksen E-Consult http://www.econsult.dk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
