Nick_J
11 years agoLevel 4
Media server is not being 'active for tape and disk jobs' intermittently
Media server: Runs on Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 and with NBU version 7.5.0.5
The media server state to 'active for tape and disk jobs' is intermittently going off to 'active for disk jobs'. So far I...
- 11 years ago
Observed the following errors in the media server.
/var/log/messages:
tldd[26336]: Error in Semaphore Operation - Invalid argumenttldd[26336]: Daemon has terminated abnormallytldd[26336]: Daemon has terminated due to IPC message failurentpd[1227]: sendto(xx.xx.xx.xx) (fd=-1): Bad file descriptorvmd[27325]: terminating - another daemon already exists (89)Daemon log:<16> no_daemon_exists: file already locked<16> vmd: vmd: Unable to get daemon lock file<16> vmd: terminating - another daemon already exists (89)Deleted the configured devices using the following command and reconfigured the tape drives from the scratch.nbemmcmd -deletealldevices -machinetype media -machinename xxxxtpconfig -dev_pingConfirmed the media server could be able to talk with the tape drives:tpconfig -dev_ping -drive -path /dev/xxxxI strongly believed the hung/stuck semaphore in the OS and unexpected terminated lock files, along with the large operation of bad descriptors were dominating this issue, hence bounced the media server, from then on the MachineState is stable for tape and disk jobs.