Has anybody else seen this? We have had two fileservers restart with
the message:
Assertion failed! file afsfileprocs.c, line 5588.
in FileLog. This is with AFS 3.3a, and I've seen this before when
there are disk media errors. But, when AFS was restarting multiple
partitions could not be salvaged. The message in SalvageLog was:
01/23/96 14:53:27 SALVAGING FILE SYSTEM PARTITION /vicepq (device=lv17)
01/23/96 14:53:37 File system /dev/rlv17 is in a bad state.
01/23/96 14:53:37 Call your IBM representative.
This happened to 5 partitions on 2 disks the first time, and 6 partitions
on three disks the second time. When AFS came back up, large numbers of
the volumes on these partitions could not be attached. (Yes, I'm also
going to post this to comp.unix.aix.)
Stopping AFS and running fsck gave me:
# umount /vicepq
# fsck /dev/lv17
** Checking /dev/rlv17 (/vicep)
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Inode Map
** Phase 6 - Check Block Map
Superblock is marked dirty; FIX? y
52595 AFS files, 405 non-AFS files,
53000 files 2532432 blocks 285616 free
***** File system was modified *****
# mount /vicepq
mount: 0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/lv17 on /vicepq: There is an input or
output error.
For all the partitions. In order to re-mount the disks, I had to
reboot the machines (after touching SALVAGE.fs to force a salvage).
The servers are running AIX 3.1.5.1, with SSA and other disks. The
first time the dirty superblock was on two SSA disks. The second time
on three non-SSA disks. The media error associated with the first
restart was *not* on the SSA disks which reported the dirty
superblock. In the second case, the dirty superblock was on one of
the disks reporting a media error, but the other two disks did *not*
report media errors. I suspect AIX, since it is the only thing
changed recently (we were running 3.1.5 prior to adding SSA and FDDI).
Mike
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Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ITS Systems Programmer TeX, AFS, NIS, NTP, Astronomy, Epistemology.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/
