This usually is resultant of a server process not starting properly
and exiting immediately

Please check to see your server processes are indeed still running:
`ps ax | grep pvfs`

and then check /tmp/pvfs2-server.log  for further details.

Good luck!


Kyle Schochenmaier



On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM, FileSystem Novice
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to PVFS [and linux/networking :-) ] ... I could compile the code
> for PVFS2 and set it up as per the first few steps in the document (A Quick
> Start Guide to PVFS2).
>
> As an FYI, I set up the PVFS2 server on a hostname called ''clone1" (which
> is a Ubuntu VM running on my local box) using instructions mentioned in
> Chapter 3.1 and 3.2 and started it.
>
> However once I do the Client Configuration on a different hostname called
> "clone2" (which is also a different Ubuntu VM running on my local box) as
> per Chapter 3.3 and try to Test the Installation as per Chapter 3.4, I get
> the following error while running the following command on "clone2" :
>
> # ./pvfs2-ping -m /mnt/pvfs2
>
> .......
> .......
> (3) Initializing each file system found in tab file: /etc/pvfs2tab ...
>
> PVFS2 Servers: tcp://clone2.3334
> Storage name: pvfs2-fs
> Local mount point: /mnt/pvfs2
> [E 16:33:31.269173] msgpair failed, will retry: Connection refused
> ...............................................................
> ...............................................................
> [E 16:33:31.291384] msgpair failed, will retry: Connection refused
> [E 16:33:31.291811] *** msgpairarray_completion_fn: msgpair to server
> [UNKNOWN] failed: Connection refused
> [E 16:33:41.292067] *** Out of retries.
>
>    /mnt/pvfs2: FAILURE!
>
> Failure: could not initialize at least one of the target file systems.
>
> (4) Searching for /mnt/pvfs2 in pvfstab ...
> [E 16:33:41:294024] Error: /mnt/pvfs2/ resides on a PVFS2 file system that
> has not yet been initialized.
> Failure: could not find filesystem for /mnt/pvfs2 in pvfs2tab /etc/pvfs2tab
> Entry 0: /mnt/pvfs2
>
>
> Is there something trivial that I am doing wrong ?
> Thanks for your help!
> PVFS Novice
>
>
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