Re: star quitting when changing tapes

jon fritsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tried to run the script (which worked fine for
> nearly a year) under ksh (per suggestion of somebody
> on the board that bash was broken and was the problem,
> although I was never sure why I suddenly broke after a
> year of working fine???).  I always thought it may
> have happened with a kernel upgrade.  It is good to
> hear that Im not crazy and somebody else is having the
> problem, too.
>
> Nevertheless when I ran the last script under ksh, I
> got a bad kernel panic and my whole machine won't
> boot.  I am working on that now.

The fact that the tape-device driver reports EBUSY is a hint
for a serious bug in that driver. A kernel panic that directly 
follows the first problem seems to be obvious.

Please try to find someone from the Linux kernel group to help you.

Jörg

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