[daip] Re: TPMON problem.

[Eric Greisen]

shoshana rosenthal writes:
 > 
 > We are having problems with TPMON. When trying to mount remote tape
 > we get the following error
 > AIPS 2: ZMOUNR: UNABLE TO MOUNT REMOTE TAPE DEVICE, ERROR   96
 > AIPS 2: AMOUNT: TAPE IS ALREADY MOUNTED BY TPMON
 > 
 > There are defunct TPMONS and restarting TPMON doesn't help.
 > root     11151  0.0  0.0  2208  932 pts/8    S    12:18   0:00 TPMON1
 > dmitchel 12109  0.0  0.0     0    0 pts/1    Z+   12:52   0:00 [STARTPMON] 
 > <defunct>
 > 

TPMON1 is used for disk files, TPMON2 is for tape drive 1, TPMON3 is
for tape 2 and STARTPMON script often shows as defunct and is not
something the AIPS.EXE talks to at all.

This usually arises when users abuse the system - aborting AIPS with a
kill -9 and/or removing the tape physically rather than with a
dismount.  The TPMONn for that tape drive needs to be killed and
restarted.  If the AIPS was not killed a dismount would work probably
but since it is allowing a mount command, AIPS has been put in a wrong
state.

Eric Greisen