Well,
  I too thought it was tape related... so i amrestored
the file to the holding disk and tried to access it. 
Still hangs on exit.... the file appears to be
completely restored off the tape without a problem.

--- Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:26:07PM -0700, Jerry
> wrote:
> > anyone ever seen this?
> > 
> > I am doing a restore by:
> > /opt/amanda/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/rmt/0n eris  |
> > ufsrestore -ivbf 2 -
> > 
> > It's a 9 GB dump approx. I get the interactive
> > restore, I can restore files, but when I exit it
> > hangs... I even let it sit for hours on the way
> home
> > from work and after dinner. It never exits.  When
> I
> > control-c it, the process dies a few seconds after
> and
> > I rewind the tape and everything is cool.  Anyone
> with
> > anything remotely similar.  When I try to list the
> > contents of the dump with restore -t same thing...
> > hangs towards the end (I think it lists everything
> in
> > the backup).
> 
> Tape device drivers can be funny.  They don't seem
> to
> have timeouts and there might be interaction between
> locks on the device, closing the drive, and waiting
> for the lock to clear so it can be opened again.
> 
> I'd bet if you truss the amrestore process (can be
> attached to on an already running process) you'd
> discover it was just sitting there waiting for ???
> (something to complete/release/???).
> 
> Solution?  You got me!
> -- 
> Jon H. LaBadie                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  JG Computing
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