[OpenAFS] bos shutdown: fileserver failed to shutdown within 1800 seconds

[Derrick J Brashear]

Answer is in the archives here. A bug in RedHat's "new pthreads library"
support in glibc is responsible. A search for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
openafs-info on google should reveal the answer.


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> Hi People
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> I'm using:
>       RedHat 9
>       openafs-1.2.10-rh9.0.1
> on a AFS server ( database + file)  with 2 * 200GB disks.
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> The machine only runs for a few hours and then stops responding.
> If i then  use the bos restart ....  command i find the <subject> error
> in the logs.
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> On each disk i have configured only one big ext3 vicep partition, can
> this be wrong??
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> > df -T
> ...
> /dev/hda4     ext3   181594892  38804744 133565628  23% /vicepa
> /dev/hdc1     ext3   192292124  38962760 143561444  22% /vicepb
> ...
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> Is it possible that a restart really does take more than 1800 seconds?
> The led and the sounds during a restart all look/sound very healthy,
> precisely
> what you would expect from a busy process.
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> Any other reason why my server is so unstable? I have 4 other AFS
> servers in the same
> cell with very little problems.
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> Any and all help is welcome,
> Theo
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