> On Feb 6, 2018, at 9:01 PM, Kenneth Garges <gar...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Permissions and ownership are ok. I think I figured out the problem.
> 
> Both mtx and chio would work for a while, then stop working returning only 
> “Inappropriate ioctl for device” or other errors. The culprit I think is a 
> library management tool by Quantum. The library provides a web interface that 
> allows you to check status, move tapes around, and various utilities. 
> 
> Problem is if you use that web interface it gets the server (both Bacula SD 
> and Director on the same FreeBSD box) wedged such that mtx and chio always 
> fail.
> 
> Unknown to me, the operations staff had been using that web interface while I 
> was testing. After I asked them to stop my system seems to work reliably. 
> 
> Thanks to all that chimed in on this thread. It was very helpful.

Wow, that would have been hard to track down.  How did you stumble across that?


-- 
Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
d...@langille.org




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