[OpenAFS-devel] Possible 1.3.85 fileserver/volserver problem

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:33:36 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Hans-Werner Paulsen wrote:

>> The platform is Solaris 10 amd64, up to current patch.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, I can't provide much debugging information on this -- it
>> happened at 2am, so I wasn't quite in the mental state for "collecting
>> information".  No out-of-the ordinary messages were in the fileserver or
>> volserver logs; the only 'out of the ordinary' event that was occuring
>> at the time is that it was well in the middle of our backup window.
>> From what i could tell, .backup snapshot creation had finished about 20
>> minutes before things started to go bad, and it looks like
>> dumping-to-tape had begun.  Could there be any open fileserver/volserver
>> IPC issues?
>>
>
> We had the same problem with i386 Linux 2.6.12 and OpenAFS 1.3.84.

Get backtraces of the volserver and fileserver when it happens?