On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Andreas Hirczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Andreas Hirczy wrote:
> >>
> >> My AFS cell works ok in most scenarios, but since a reboot of one
> DB-server
> >> last friday no vos command besides "vos help" finishes - e.g.  "vos exa
> >> root.afs -localauth -verbose" hangs indefinitely and does not produce
> any
> >> output. Log files are also basically empty. File access works perfectly
> but I
> >> cannot create or move volumes; no backup of course.
> >
> > Sounds like firewall to me. can you run vos listvldb root.afs -localauth
> on
> > the db server?
>
> No firewall, but "vos listvldb root.afs -localauth" worked.


Talks to the vlserver, only


> And a miracle
> occured: after 10 hours of observed outage "vos exa ...." for volumes not
> on
> the blocking fileserver works again.
>

vos examine talks to the volservers. ok, well,



> Very strange: no entrys in the log files for 2 hours since last reboot and
> salvage. It did not work then. There are still 74 blocked connections on
> one
> fileserver, but that could be a different problem.  "man fileserver" seems
> to
> indicate, that this number will never go down again until restart.
> Unluckily
> "vos listvol" still runs slow - but triggers some logging messages at last:
>
> ==> /var/log/openafs/VolserLog <==
> Wed Jul 23 21:23:28 2008 FSYNC_clientInit temporary failure (will retry)
> Wed Jul 23 21:23:44 2008 FSYNC_clientInit temporary failure (will retry)
> Wed Jul 23 21:24:08 2008 FSYNC_clientInit temporary failure (will retry)
> Wed Jul 23 21:24:40 2008 FSYNC_clientInit temporary failure (will retry)
> Wed Jul 23 21:25:20 2008 FSYNC_clientInit temporary failure (will retry)
>
> ==> /var/log/openafs/BosLog <==
> Wed Jul 23 21:26:08 2008: fs:vol exited on signal 6
>
> ==> /var/log/openafs/VolserLog <==
> FSYNC_clientInit failed (giving up!): Connection refused
> Wed Jul 23 21:26:08 2008
> : Assertion failed! file ../vol/volume.c, line 705.


dead volserver would of course explain a hang. the volserver will restart
with an fs outage.

got a corefile?

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