I have a wierd issue I'm hoping someone has seen before. I have a 3584 tape library attached to an AIX box. I have a bunch of perl scripts that deal with tape automation. Part of this process uses lbtest to grab the current contents of the IO door. However, I've had it happen a few times where things stopped working, and when I investigate I find that lbtest has suddenly stopped returning barcodes. All of the elements show FULL or EMPTY, but no barcodes are listed, and barcode_len = 0.
If I go to the library web gui, I see the barcodes. And if I just leave things alone, in 24h or so it seems to go back to normal. Nothing I do to the library (including rebooting it) seems to fix the problem immediately. Very very wierd. Anyone seen this before? regards, Paul
