I know it's not what you want to hear, but as far as I know, you can only
access that data via the fileserver.
Whenever I've been in a similar situation in the past, it always helps to
try to figure out what changed since the last time the server booted
cleanly.
You said you had a power outage that caused this problem; did all the
filesystems, particularly the one with the openafs binaries on it, come up
cleanly? If you didn't have any file corruption, the problem likely isn't
caused by the power outage, but by something else. [I've had problems show
up on a reboot after a power outage not because of the power outage, but
because servers get rebooted seldomly while in production.]
Can you can do a md5 checksum of all the openafs-related files
(binaries and conf files) on the problem server and another server of the
same architecture and running the same version/build of openafs to locate
what's changed? You might want to re-run through your install docs and
either double-check everything, or else re-install and re-configure
everything, copying known-good files over the ones on your server...? Just
make sure that you've got a copy of all of your relevant config files
backed up, or that you can get them from another server (CellServDB,
KeyFile, UserList).
Before any of that, if you're running iptables or some other firewall on
the server or the test client, turn it off for testing to see if it's a
problem...
[Of course, as a last-ditch you can reinstall the problem fileserver,
taking care not to wipe your /vicep partitions. Or since you said you
had 20 servers, simply move the /vicep disks from the problem server to
another fileserver. Procedures for normalizing vldb after the latter type
of move have been discussed on this list before.]
Best of luck!
Cheers, Stephen
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Stephen Joyce
Systems Administrator P A N I C
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure
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In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't
budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying
for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.
--Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
What would you rather have to plow a field - two strong oxen or 1,024
chickens? --Seymour Cray
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Micha? Dro?dziewicz wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to access volumes (files on volumes) without the client? I can
log in onto the server as root.
Server is not serving volumes (problem I've described erlier - fileserver and
volserver are not starting properly) and I really need to copy these files
onto another machine for this server to reinstall. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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