gnome2-2.16.1_2 upgrade vs tape drive

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Joe,
      Thanks for the response.

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 00:13 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Since upgrading to gnome2-2.16.1_2 yesterday, I've noticed that my tape backup have
> > stopped working.
> > 
> > Checks now reveal that I am no longer able to access the tape device (I've done all the
> > usual checks on the drive itself), and this has started happening since I upgraded.
> > 
> > This is what I'm now seeing:
> > 
> > # mt stat
> > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device busy
> > #
> > 
> > I can see the tape drive okay enough:
> > # camcontrol devlist
> > <HP C1537A L708>                   at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
> > <SONY CD-ROM CDU5211 YYS7>         at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0)
> > #
> > 
> > I've tried brand new tapes, running cleaning (new ones) tapes through the drive,
> > rebooting, etc, but I've effectively now no longer got a working tape drive.
> 
> Shutdown hald, and see if the problem persists.  If it does, it's not a
> problem with GNOME.

Is there a "shutdown" or "stop" switch to /usr/local/sbin/hald? There's no manpages or
anything I can see.., and wondered if a hard kill is required?

Thanks.

Regards,

Stacey
> 
> Joe
> 
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