Lars Sørensen wrote:
And the weird thing is that the tape mentioned is in fact in the rack and in the right place. I've tried starting with tape 5 in the drive and watched as the tapechanger substituted that tape with tape 6 into the drive and then producing the exact same error as above ? ? ?
Maybe tape 6 is broken. Try to read the tape label manually: mt -t /the/tape/device rewind dd if=/the/tape/device bs=32k count=1 Maybe some error occured just when writing the tape (why was it hung? By rebooting you got at least the device reset, but the tapelabel was maybe destroyed just before, and no updated label was written yet.) Maybe you have to relabel the tape or a new tape (amrmtape first, to forget everything about the existing tape).
Anyone got any ideas at all as to what is going on? btw I also tried moving all the tapelist, amdump, amflush and other log files out of the but that did not help either.
Don't do that. Amanda needs the tapelist file and log files. Maybe you got yourself into bigger trouble now. (Just restore the files from the backups, if you "rm" them instead of moved to a different place.) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
