RMAN function sbtinit hangs on

[brackovic]

If someone is more familiar with RMAN scripts:
We are trying to run essential RMN script on environment: Windows 2000 Server, Oracle 8.1.7 end NMO 4.1 for Windows.

When we run test script within RMAN the output in Oracle dump log file looks like:
Dump file D:\oracle\admin\orc4\udump\ORA03244.TRC
Wed Jul 27 15:19:02 2005
ORACLE V8.1.7.0.0 - Production vsnsta=0
vsnsql=e vsnxtr=3
Windows 2000 Version 5.0 Service Pack 4, CPU type 586
Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
Windows 2000 Version 5.0 Service Pack 4, CPU type 586
Instance name: orc4

Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1

Oracle process number: 27

Windows thread id: 3244, image: ORACLE.EXE


*** SESSION ID22.70) 2005-07-27 15:19:02.140
skgfgdvi(se=0x290eb830, ctx=0x2915db18, dev=0x29191e20)
skgfidev(se=0x290eb830 ctx=0x2915db18, dev=0x29191e20)
skgfalo(se=0x290eb9bc, ctx=0x2915db18, dev=0x29191e20, devparms=ENV=(NSR_CLIENT=medea.zagreb.hr,NSR_SERVER=chelsea.zagreb.hr,NSR_DATA_VOLUME_POOL=ORACLE), flags=33554432)
skgfidev(se=0x290eb9bc ctx=0x2915db18, dev=0x29191e20)
skgfidev(): processing: ENV=(NSR_CLIENT=medea.zagreb.hr,NSR_SERVER=chelsea.zagreb.hr,NSR_DATA_VOLUME_POOL=ORACLE)
skgfidev(): setting environment variable: NSR_CLIENT=medea.zagreb.hr
skgfidev(): setting environment variable: NSR_SERVER=chelsea.zagreb.hr
skgfidev(): setting environment variable: NSR_DATA_VOLUME_POOL=ORACLE
entering sbtinit on line 2149
return from sbtinit on line 2157
entering sbtinit2 on line 2262

and RMAN hangs on forever.
What could be the problem??

 

[hoinz]

Hello,

are there any suspicious messages in your networker log files?
Some time ago we saw that a database backup hung (not forever, but for hours), while networker was busy loading and ejecting tapes, looking for usable ones. And this was in daemon.log file.
We found out that the labels of various tapes had become unreadable. It seems they had been destroyed be a defective tape drive.

hope this helps