> 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.
