Ken Aaker wrote: > Derrick J Brashear wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Joe Buehler wrote: >> >> >> >>> Does the above log provide any useful information to the experts here >>> present >>> so this can be fixed? Perhaps the iinc messages provide a clue as to >>> what >>> is wrong with the volume? Perhaps the salvager needs an enhancement >>> here >>> so it makes a correct volume? >>> >> We fixed a bunch of stuff in 1.4.2fc2, fc3 and fc4 in this regard >> (salvager fixes, volserver fixes, for namei fileservers). Fixing stuff >> only helps if you take the fixes. I understand it's not in a release >> yet. At the same time, asking for fixes to something that's already >> fixed, well, it's there, if you're willing to try a patch, you're >> willing to try a candidate. If you're not willing to try a patch, ok, >> you're waiting for a release anyway. >> >> I'm not picking on you. This has been a persistent question from many >> people, which means one of >> 1) the release notes for the candidates aren't clear. If so, I suck. >> Tell me how. >> 2) people ignore the release notes for the candidates. your choice, >> obviously. >> 3) laziness. can't help you there. there's obviously some of this, >> like when we get a question which was answered in the literal previous >> message to a list. >> >> Derrick >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenAFS-info mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >> > Thanks for the suggestions, I had run out of things to try. > > Ok, I'll grab the release candidate and give that a try. I was reluctant > to jump to a new release because I had been poking at this problem > enough to worry about screwing up something that would crater the rest > of the system. Everything in OpenAFS has been working the way I expect > it to, so when something becomes mysterious, it makes me very cautious > about adding another variable. > > Without the suggestions, I was thinking about only doing "admin" > commands while I was wearing my OpenAFS t-shirt..... > > Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > I grabbed the 1.4.2fc4 release candidate and built it for SuSE 9.0. After I fixed a bug in src/auth/cellconfig.c the new fileserver and salvager were able to clean up my /vicepa partition and VLDB. Then the move volume worked without any additional problems.
I've submitted the bug to openafs-bugs as Ticket 40829 with the patch for cellconfig.c that worked for me. Ken Aaker _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
