From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 08:35:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13529 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA17337; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:33:28 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810291633.IAA17337@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump error In-Reply-To: <199810290404.UAA03686@athena.tera.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Gary Kline >Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:04:50 -0800 (PST) > Has anyone else seen this type err from dump: > DUMP: 64.00% done, finished in 0:30 > DUMP: write error 236530 blocks into volume 1 > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. More times than I want to think about. :-{ > Should I be looking out for a bad tape; is my drive > (Archive 250MB qic ) going south; or was it simply > overful?? I would expect that dump ran out of tape (whether because there was too much data to back up, the medium was flaky, the drive needs to be cleaned, or some combination of the above). > The fopen() error is _way_ confusing! Well, as I recall, it arises because dump wants to ask its pet human for assistance in swapping media... but there's no controlling tty, so it can't do that from cron. So in despair & frustration, it issues the above & gives up. [NB: Yes, there is considerable poetic license there.] david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message