Obtaining an AFS token via Kerberos should be possible even if you do
not have a working AFS server environment. Use "aklog -d" to obtain debugging information regarding the Kerberos service principal that is being acquired. The error you received "no KDC available" most likely indicates that you have no configuration information specified
on your machine.  You should start off by ensuring that the krb5.conf
file for your Kerberos realm is installed on your machine.

However even if you can't get a Kerberos ticket and authenticate that
way to your AFS servers, if you have direct access to the AFS servers
themselves you can use the -localauth parameter to all of the relevant
commands provided that your local machine account has the ability to
read the AFS KeyFile.

The error "Can't rebuild the database because it is not empty"
is produced because the verification of the PRDB integrity failed:

    if ((ntohl(cheader.version) == PRDBVERSION)
        && ntohl(cheader.headerSize) == sizeof(cheader)
        && ntohl(cheader.eofPtr) != (afs_uint32) NULL
        && FindByID(tt, ANONYMOUSID) != 0) {
        /* database exists, so we don't have to build it */
        code = ubik_EndTrans(tt);
        if (code)
            return code;
        return PRSUCCESS;
    }
    /* else we need to build a database */

But the PRDB is not empty and we do not want to destroy the corrupted
database if that is the only copy of the database that exists.

In order for the ptserver to automatically rebuild the PRDB two
things must be true.

  1. The PRDB must be empty
  2. The ptserver must be running in -noauth mode

Otherwise, if you build OpenAFS from source, in the src/ptserver directory is a command called 'db_verify'. In addition to being able to use db_verify to validate the contents of the PRDB, one of the parameters to 'db_verify' is -rebuild. 'db_verify' can only be executed while the ptserver is shutdown and should only be used after backups
of the file have been made.

NOTE: db_verify is intended to be used be individuals comfortable with reading the OpenAFS sources and whom have knowledge of OpenAFS internals.

Jeffrey Altman




kanou wrote:
so, i thank you all for your help. i m sorry for not beeing so experienced with afs/kerberos. it s pretty new to me. by now, my first server, the one that was broken, is running pretty good and everybody gets their files, but still the database needs rebuilding and i dont know how.

the second one, that worked well until the other began running again, is in a bad state. nobody can connect to their files and i m not able to get a ticket from kerberos.

bos status -server myserver2
bos: no such entry (getting tickets)
bos: running unauthenticated
Instance fs, currently running normally.
    Auxiliary status is: file server running.
Instance ptserver, currently running normally.
Instance vlserver, currently running normally.

and logs:
==> /var/log/openafs/PtLog <==
ptserver: Unknown code pt 11 (267275) Can't rebuild database because it is not empty

please tell me how to rebuild the database.
kanou

Am 23.07.2008 um 20:06 schrieb kanou:

Well i did:
udebug myserver 7002
Host's addresses are:  ip-myserver
Host's  ip-myserver time is Wed Jul 23 19:47:26 2008
Local time is Wed Jul 23 19:47:29 2008 (time differential 3 secs)
Last yes vote for ip-myserver2 was 24 secs ago (sync site);
Last vote started 24 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:47:05 2008)
Local db version is 1214806124.7
I am not sync site
Lowest host ip-myserver2 was set 24 secs ago
Sync host ip-myserver2 was set 24 secs ago
Sync site's db version is 1214806124.7
0 locked pages, 0 of them for write

udebug myserver 7003
Host's addresses are: ip-myserver
Host's ip-myserver time is Wed Jul 23 19:49:34 2008
Local time is Wed Jul 23 19:49:35 2008 (time differential 1 secs)
Last yes vote for ip-myserver was 44 secs ago (not sync site);
Last vote started 44 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:48:51 2008)
Local db version is 1216833173.3
I am not sync site
Lowest host ip-myserver2 was set 5 secs ago
Sync host 0.0.0.0 was set 154 secs ago
Sync site's db version is 1216833173.3
0 locked pages, 0 of them for write

and on myserver2:
udebug myserver2 7002
Host's addresses are: ip-myserver2
Host's ip-myserver2 time is Wed Jul 23 19:56:38 2008
Local time is Wed Jul 23 19:56:39 2008 (time differential 1 secs)
Last yes vote for ip-myserver2 was 6 secs ago (sync site);
Last vote started 6 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:56:33 2008)
Local db version is 1214806124.7
I am sync site until 51 secs from now (at Wed Jul 23 19:57:30 2008) (2 servers)
Recovery state 1f
Sync site's db version is 1214806124.7
0 locked pages, 0 of them for write

Server (ip-myserver): (db 1214806124.7)
   last vote rcvd 9 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:56:30 2008),
last beacon sent 6 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:56:33 2008), last vote was yes
   dbcurrent=1, up=1 beaconSince=1

udebug myserver2 7003
Host's addresses are: ip-myserver2
Host's ip-myserver2 time is Wed Jul 23 19:57:50 2008
Local time is Wed Jul 23 19:57:50 2008 (time differential 0 secs)
Last yes vote for ip-myserver2 was 3 secs ago (sync site);
Last vote started 3 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:57:47 2008)
Local db version is 1216835658.20
I am sync site until 56 secs from now (at Wed Jul 23 19:58:46 2008) (2 servers)
Recovery state 1f
Sync site's db version is 1216835658.20
0 locked pages, 0 of them for write
Last time a new db version was labelled was:
     212 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:54:18 2008)

Server (ip-myserver): (db 1216835658.20)
   last vote rcvd 4 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:57:46 2008),
last beacon sent 3 secs ago (at Wed Jul 23 19:57:47 2008), last vote was yes
   dbcurrent=1, up=1 beaconSince=1

The system on myserver (the first one) is now running again but if i try to create a user i still get: pts: database needs rebuilding ; unable to create user TESTUSER with id 3563
Volume 536872154 created on partition /vicepa of myserver
Released volume cell.user successfully
fs: Invalid argument, possible reasons include:
    -File not in AFS
    -Too many users on access control list
    -Tried to add non-existent user to access control list
pts: User or group doesn't exist ; unable to add user TESTUSER to group TESTGROUP pts: User or group doesn't exist ; unable to add user TESTUSER to group TESTAFSUSER
Added replication site myserver /vicepa for volume user. TESTUSER

Could please someone tell me how to rebuild the protection database?
I cant bos on myserver2 because i dont get a ticket from kerberos.
or does /etc/init.d/openafs-client stop and /etc/init.d/openafs-fileserver stop the job to stop the whole system?

thanks all for your help
kanou


Am 23.07.2008 um 19:30 schrieb Hartmut Reuter:

kanou wrote:
My logs on the second machine tell me:
==> /var/log/openafs/FileLog.old <==
Wed Jul 23 19:03:37 2008 File server starting
Wed Jul 23 19:03:37 2008 afs_krb_get_lrealm failed, myserver2.
Wed Jul 23 19:03:37 2008 VL_RegisterAddrs rpc failed; will retry periodically (code=5376, err=4)


code 5376 means no quorum elected. Are you sure your database servers are all running?

Try "udebug <server> 7002" for the ptserver
and "udebug <server> 7003" for the vldb

Wed Jul 23 19:03:37 2008 Couldn't get CPS for AnyUser, will try again in 30 seconds; code=267275.
==> /var/log/openafs/SalvageLog <==
07/23/2008 19:08:27 SALVAGING OF PARTITION /vicepa COMPLETED
and aklog gives me:
aklog: Couldn't get hrf.uni-koeln.de AFS tickets:
aklog: Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while getting AFS tickets
damn! i did not do anything on that second one!
Just to make sure you're working on the correct file:
As I understand you first deleted the file /var/lib/openafs/db/ prdb.DB0.
This file was then probably recreated when you restarted the ptserver.
Run this command on the backupfile you made first (or better on a copy of the backup file).

T/Christof
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [openafs-info- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kanou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Serious trouble, mounting /afs, ptserver, database rebuilding

Thanks for your answer.
Well I found the file prdb_check. It doesnt print any errors. Only
thing I can find is with
./prdb_check -database /var/lib/openafs/db/prdb.DB0 -uheader -verbose
this line:
Ubik header size is 0 (should be 64)

So there are no errors! I can start the server and everything runs
fine but the machine wont mount /afs!
kanou

Am 23.07.2008 um 17:26 schrieb Steven Jenkins:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, kanou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,
well, there is a file called db_verify.c in the folder
/usr/src/modules/openafs/ptserver but I don' know how to build it.


If I recall correctly, db_verify gets renamed to 'prdb_check' during
the install, so you should check for the existence of that file.

If you can't find it, you'll need to build it from source code: the
directions on the AFSLore wiki are a good place to start:

http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource

If you have problems building openafs-stable-1_4_x, you could get
openafs-stable-1_4_7 instead, as that is the latest official release.

Once you have built the tree, src/ptserver/db_verify should get built,
so you can simply copy it out of the source tree for your use.  If it
doesn't get built automatically for you, you can cd into src/ptserver
and do a 'make db_verify' manuall.

Also, feel free to ask for help here  or on the irc channel.

Steven Jenkins
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com/


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