Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
On Monday, November 08, 2004 09:49:32 -0500 Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All,
Odd problem here.
I have a file server where the bos server has stopped. It still seems to
be serving files ok. vlserver is not running either. The last time this
happened I restarted bosserver and this started a chain reaction of
Salvaging that never actually stopped. The best solution is a reboot but
if the server will hold off till tonight I would like to wait untill then
.. classes are in full swing right now.
SO here is my question .. can I remove SALVAGE.fs and start bosserver thereby avoiding the salvage routine? Or can I kill the fileserver processs one by one and then restart bosserver?
Or is this an invitation to more headaches.?
Don't do that. If the bosserver is dead and you try to start a new one, then it will not know about the other servers that are still running, and will attempt to start new ones. This is why you were getting the "endless salvage" - the fileserver would start up, find out that its port is unavailable, and exit.
The safest course of action is to manually kill off any of the remaining servers that normally run under the bosserver's control, then restart the bosserver (possibly after a reboot). As long as the other services are still working, it is safe to wait arbitrarily long before doing this.
Note that while most of the servers will shut down cleanly if sent SIGTERM, the fileserver is special and needs to be sent SIGQUIT to make it shut down.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
Jeffrey,
Thanks for the reply .. that is exactly what I did. I waited till the next morning and rebooted the servers at 5 am . They all had to run salvager but they did return. I also upgraded them to Version 1.2.13 and so now we are in the 'wait and see' mode. I also set the startup script to allow core files so if they do fail we will have a little more to work with.
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-- Steve Devine Storage Systems Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University
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Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra
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