On 2/21/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

FL schrieb:
> A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available.
> What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks.
>
> Changer problem: no slots available

In my case it helped to change the group of the used changer-device:

# chgrp tape /dev/sg2

when the amanda-user is member of the group tape.

# ll /dev/sg2
crw-rw---- 1 root tape 21, 2 16. Feb 11:35 /dev/sg2

After that you can try

amanda ~ $ mtx -f /dev/sg2 status

and amcheck should find slots then.

The group of the changer-device might be reset after reboot, due to udev
and similar stuff, haven't yet researched how to fix that here. I do it
manually, one could also add this to some boot-script.

Stefan

Hi,
In fact, that's what I've been doing, and I've added it to a boot script;
e.g.,

modprobe sg
chown root.tape /dev/sg2
if [ ! -h /dev/changer ]; then
  ln -s /dev/sg2 /dev/changer
fi

(My changer device is also /dev/sg2.) I must look into udev...I may be
attempting
to change ownership and set the symbolic link at the wrong time...
FL

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