Re: [OpenAFS] largefile support question - resolved

2004-11-05 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Nov 4, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Horst Birthelmer wrote: On Nov 4, 2004, at 7:14 PM, Tony D'Amato wrote: So far, we've been running with this configuration for about just under a month, and all is running well. I hope this information helps others who may

Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to authenticate to AFS because internal error encountered in kaserver.

2004-11-05 Thread Ulf Ziemann
Derrick J Brashear wrote: | Find out why KAA_AuthenticateV2 is broken, and the problem will go away. | Someone previously sent a patch to dsiable it, and I'm not taking that | patch. The problem can and should be fixed for real. | Thanks to Christof Hanke, I have a functional klog. I have removed

Re: [SPAM] - Re: [OpenAFS] AuthServer problem with SuSE 9.2 - Found word(s) list error in the Text body.

2004-11-05 Thread Ulf Ziemann
Hello, I had a optimization problem on SuSE 9.1 Search the mailing list: https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2004-November/015337.html Ulf ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OpenAFS] Help wanted (vos release/volume locked)

2004-11-05 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I've got some problems: vos examine office office536871143 RW 662181 K On-line ~zork.cg.cs.tu-bs.de /vicepb ~RWrite 536871143 ROnly 536871144 Backup 0 ~MaxQuota1024000 K ~Creation

Re: [OpenAFS] Help wanted (vos release/volume locked)

2004-11-05 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I've got some problems: vos examine office office536871143 RW 662181 K On-line ~zork.cg.cs.tu-bs.de /vicepb ~RWrite 536871143 ROnly 536871144 Backup

Re: [OpenAFS] Help wanted (vos release/volume locked)

2004-11-05 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Horst Birthelmer schrieb: | | On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi! | | I've got some problems: | vos examine office | office536871143 RW 662181 K

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems with fsck on Solaris 9

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Joyce
Thanks for working on this. Is there a solution yet? I have a development machine (solaris 9, openafs 1.2.11) which I patched last night (before reading the archives--doh!) and it appears to have the same, or a similar, problem (it was fine before applying the newest patches): The system is

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems with fsck on Solaris 9

2004-11-05 Thread Douglas E. Engert
I sent in a bug report and patch on 11/2 See bug 15927. Basicly it adds a prototype for bread and bwrite into fsck.h You may also need the patch to the src/vfsck/setup.c added to the CVS in August to get it to compile on Solare 9 if the sys/fs/ufs_fs.h does has been updated Stephen Joyce wrote:

[OpenAFS] Windows Server Manager tab headings

2004-11-05 Thread David R Boldt
This started on the IBM/Transarc version of Server Manager; where the contents of the window abruptly appeared to be collapsed and/or otherwise scrambled. At the terminus of my many attempts to resurrect use of this package, I did a full uninstall, including the configuration files, and did a

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows Server Manager tab headings

2004-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
The Windows Server and associated tools are not currently receiving a great deal of attention. There is too much work that needs to be done on the client. The source of the problem is known. IBM/Transarc devised an interesting algorithm for loading resource strings from a locale specific DLL.

[OpenAFS] Problem after weekly bos restart on servers

2004-11-05 Thread Murray Anderegg
Some of our AFS servers, which are running openafs-1.2.11 on Solaris 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, have had a problem after their weekly restart where the following error is appearing at regular (approximately 3 min 26 seconds) intervals: Fri Nov 5 13:13:07 2004: fs:vol exited with code 1

[OpenAFS] Linux modules

2004-11-05 Thread Justin M Wozniak
Hello I'm using a RedHat machine that AFS works on with the default kernel, and I am trying to get AFS working with a 2.4.* custom kernel. Are pre-compiled kernel modules available for custom kernels? I considered using 2.4.21, and simply symlinked to the modules, (2.4.21 - 2.4.21-EL...)

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem after weekly bos restart on servers

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Coffman
Some of our AFS servers, which are running openafs-1.2.11 on Solaris 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, have had a problem after their weekly restart where the following error is appearing at regular (approximately 3 min 26 seconds) intervals: Fri Nov 5 13:13:07 2004: fs:vol exited with

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem after weekly bos restart on servers

2004-11-05 Thread Murray Anderegg
Kevin Coffman wrote: Some of our AFS servers, which are running openafs-1.2.11 on Solaris 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, have had a problem after their weekly restart where the following error is appearing at regular (approximately 3 min 26 seconds) intervals: Fri Nov 5 13:13:07 2004:

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem after weekly bos restart on servers

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Coffman
Kevin Coffman wrote: Some of our AFS servers, which are running openafs-1.2.11 on Solaris 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, have had a problem after their weekly restart where the following error is appearing at regular (approximately 3 min 26 seconds) intervals: Fri Nov 5 13:13:07

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Support for huge (really huge!) cell

2004-11-05 Thread Ian Delahorne
We plan to install a read-only AFS-DB-Server in every school too (makes at least 100). Will Ubik scale to this number of Servers? Ubik doesn't scale beyond three servers. Klog seems to select its kaservers randomly from the CellServDB - what about afsd? Is there a use next-Server heurestics.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Support for huge (really huge!) cell

2004-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Is there a reason why you are creating one cell for all hundred schools? Why not consider 100 cells which all share a common Kerberos realm for authentication? Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Support for huge (really huge!) cell

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Ian Delahorne wrote: We plan to install a read-only AFS-DB-Server in every school too (makes at least 100). Will Ubik scale to this number of Servers? Ubik doesn't scale beyond three servers. Five, sire. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] Help wanted (vos release/volume locked)

2004-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Schimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uuups. Slap myself with the 9-cat5-whip. RTFM is always the best ;-) Why it was locked, a big mystery. Failed volume replications sometimes leave the volume locked. Volume replication sometimes fails for a variety of reasons, usually transient network

[OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Miles Davis
Over the past couple of days, one of my file servers (RedHat Linux 9, openafs 1.2.11, nothing custom, LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 is set) has developed an annoying problem. On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote: On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where a user's gconf lock i don't believe so file .gconfd/lock/ior becomes corrupt and/or unusable, requiring a salvage of the volume.

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Miles Davis
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:23:32PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote: On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where a user's gconf lock i don't believe so Dang. OK, my

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote: 11/05/2004 19:46:03 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/afs/bin/salvager /vicepb 536873343) but that's it. The volume is inaccessible, so it seems offline to me. I don't know how to tell the state outside of using vos, and that's hosed. use pstack or gdb and get

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where a user's gconf lock file .gconfd/lock/ior becomes corrupt and/or unusable, requiring a salvage of the volume. Normally, not a

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do all vos commands start failing on that file server? If so, you may have run into the same problem that we just ran into with the campus AFS servers. We needed to upgrade all of them with a patch to the vos server. You can get the patch at:

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote: Do all vos commands start failing on that file server? If so, you may have run into the same problem that we just ran into with the campus AFS servers. We needed to upgrade all of them with a patch to the vos server. You can get the patch at:

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Miles Davis
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:40:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Miles Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where a user's gconf lock file .gconfd/lock/ior becomes corrupt

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote: Yup, all vos commands are useless after it starts. Any idea what triggers it, or how to prevent it? Or is it just random luck that few have seen it sofar? A failure in the GetVolumePackage in InlineBulkstatus. The patch Russ referenced is right.

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:40:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Do all vos commands start failing on that file server? If so, you may have run into the same problem that we just ran into with the campus AFS servers. We needed to upgrade all of them with a

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote: triggers it, or how to prevent it? Or is it just random luck that few have seen it sofar? I'm mystified here; it just all of a sudden started happening to us without any changes that I'm aware of. But that one-liner completely fixed it. Somewhere a newer

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Miles Davis
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:33:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm mystified here; it just all of a sudden started happening to us without any changes that I'm aware of. But that one-liner completely fixed it. It's possible that the bos salvage is actually unrelated; your vlserver may

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Miles Davis
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:37:20AM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote: triggers it, or how to prevent it? Or is it just random luck that few have seen it sofar? I'm mystified here; it just all of a sudden started happening to us without any changes

Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote: So, do I want to patch 1.2.11, rip out the 1.3.73 clients, or go all out nuts and try out 1.3.73 on the server? patch 1.2.11; 1.3.74 will have the fix for this, 1.3.73 doesn't. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL

1.2.13 (was Re: [OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang)

2004-11-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote: but if it's the oneliner to InlinebulkStatus in afsfileprocs.c, it will be in 1.2.13. It's out now. As an aside, the AIX binaries will appear after I reboot the test host; Due to a series of events involving a pile of nickel zinc batteries and a