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2251.0. "CLEANUP.LOG error messages" by CHEFS::RAVEN () Fri May 02 1997 04:57

Tape Clean Errors.

I have recently upgraded my SLS V2.4A server to V2.8A.

In tape clean log file (SLS$DATA:CLEANUP.LOG) I have noticed the following 
errors. They appear against against 2 out of 3 tape purges.

Extract of error as shown below;
$ @SLS$SYSTEM:TAPEPURGEX "SLS" "9221" "RG71RW" "ALCD"
$!
$!*  COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 BY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, MAYNARD, MASSACHUSETTS.
$!
TAPEPURGEX - purging reel 9221, user RG71RW::SLS, flag ALCD, at  2-MAY-1997 03:03:06.04
%MAIL-E-USERDSABL, user SLS cannot receive new mail
%SLS-I-PURGED, volume 9221     purged at  2-MAY-1997 03:03:10
$ @SLS$SYSTEM:TAPEPURGEX "SLS" "9260" "RDGE21" "ALCD"
$!
$!*  COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 BY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, MAYNARD, MASSACHUSETTS.
$!
TAPEPURGEX - purging reel 9260, user RDGE21::SLS, flag ALCD, at  2-MAY-1997 03:03:11.18
%SLS-E-FREEFAIL, free directive failed
-SLS-E-NOVOLAL, no such volume or not allocated to requestor
%SLS-W-CMDSPNERR, error freeing $ @SLS$SYSTEM:TAPEPURGEX "!AD" "!AD" "!AD" "!AC"
%SLS-I-PURGED, volume 9260     purged at  2-MAY-1997 03:03:12

The error in question is the SLS-E-NOVOLAL message.....

When I check the tape database however ($Storage show vol nnnn) the tape is
updated from Allocated to Free status.

Anyone have any ideas of what causes this error?

Thanks
Kevin Raven

    This is just a guess, but it sounds as if tape volume 9260 was already 
    deallocated by the time SLS$SYSTEM:TAPEPURGEX.COM got to it - the 
    error message quoted would be the one seen if this were the case.  
    
    Ron DeSourdis/CCS Storage Mgmt./MRO

;-1 This could make sense.
SLS runs on a two node cluster.

Thus does this mean that a Cleanup would run on both nodes , running at the 
same time?

K.R.