Archive for July, 2009

RLE and SL500

As I predicted in my previous post, you could never be 100% sure about this library, and unfortunately I was right. This time I had a weird issue when two of four tape drives (0,2,2,9 and 0,2,3,9) in the DEM were reported as inoperable whilst the other two were fine. But when I swapped the […]

Posted on July 28, 2009 at 8:49 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Volokolamsk and Yaropolets

Just a few photos from the exciting trip we did last saturday to Vlokolamsk and Yaropolets. I always loved old, small but very magnetic places like these two where you could just forget about bustling life’s current we’re going with rapidly into nowhere.

Posted on July 27, 2009 at 4:28 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Away for 3 days

I’m preparing for a short, at least I do very hope it will be a short one, 3-days trip to Nizhniy Novgorod to perform SL500 library maintenance. More precisely, I’ll be replacing RLE card but since SL500 is extremely naughty you could never know what another funny thing does it keep in its sleeve. Wish […]

Posted on July 27, 2009 at 1:08 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · One Comment
In: Life

Sleeping in a /vol

If running “ls -l /” stalls but the same command to any other directory works seamlessly then most probably you’re hitting the following issue. To confirm that use truss: # truss ls -l . . . lstat64(“/vol”, 0xFFBFF8E8) (sleeping…) Additionally try “grep /var/adm/message” for NFS errors: # grep NFS /var/adm/messages NFS server for volume management […]

Posted on July 22, 2009 at 1:32 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

A generous road policeman

As far as I know it’s a common practice amongst the drivers all over the globe to warn each other by blinking with upper-beam whenever there is a road-police on an ambush ahead. In my country it looks quite ugly and ridiculous at the same time to watch them lurking in the bushes, behind the […]

Posted on July 22, 2009 at 11:40 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Faint sound from SA

Recently I’ve received few ppictures of myself and my classmates from Sun Microsystems TDC training in South Africa. That was truly awesome two months experience I mentally replay in my head over and over again, not only because it was a great opportunity to visit SA and to meet new faces, but, to a greater […]

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 6:27 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Short weekend trip

Trying to break a monotonous weekend we decided to make a short trip near Moscow and set off to Vereya. Though the place was quite nice but contrary to our expectations, massively based on my friend’s impressions, it wasn’t exactly what we expected to see. The town has radiant and old history but unfortunately very […]

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 3:20 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Kernel Conference Australia

Kernel Conference Australia is kicking off today. This is a three days event which, as appears from the subject, is dedicated to different intricacies of internals of Operating Systems, i.e. Solaris/OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux. And if you’re upset of being unable to participate then here is a live stream so you could enjoy the conference […]

Posted on July 15, 2009 at 10:43 am by sergeyt · Permalink · One Comment
In: Sun

Netbackup’s error 96.

Actually this error is trivially easy to overcome. # bperror -S 96 unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available The tape manager (bptm) could not allocate a new volume for backups. This indicates that the storage unit has no more volumes available in the volume pool for this backup. Note […]

Posted on July 15, 2009 at 9:49 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Veritas

That was quick!

Five minutes ago I received a parcel from Amazon with two books I ordered on Monday. It took only two days to have it delivered from the USA to Russia (Moscow) – I’m deeply impressed! Unfortunately there is always a fly in the ointment. Amazon’s service worked brilliantly but our local DHL didn’t even bother […]

Posted on July 8, 2009 at 4:43 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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