Re: Problem with amtape "hanging" when forked from Java

Robert Heller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Organization Deepwoods Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At Wed, 9 Mar 2022 23:50:45 +0100 Exuvo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Could you give the exact command line you give when it hangs?

/usr/sbin/amtape -otpchanger=vault_changer wendellfreelibrary label wendellfreelibrary_vault-030

That partitular tape is missing, but still existed in a separate database 
(long story).  

> 
> Anton "exuvo" Olsson
>     [email protected]
> 
> On 2022-03-09 00:27, Robert Heller wrote:
> > For some unfathomably reason amtape "hangs" when forked from a Java program.
> >
> > I've written a Java program that goes through vaulted tapes and forks amtape
> > (using Runtime.getRuntime().exec(()), and when a non-existant tape label is
> > asked for, amtape "hangs".  I cannot figure out why or how to get amtape to
> > just exit with an error (which I can then handle).
> >
> > This is with Amanda 3.5.1 on a Ubuntu 18.04 system.
> >
> > (The Java version is OpenJDK 11.0.13, in case that matters.)
> >
> 
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