[OpenAFS] Bos server troubles with Suse 9.0

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Devine wrote:

> Happy New Year all.
>
> Has anyone some advice on the best way to troubleshoot this problem:
> I am running Openafs version 1.2.13 on Suse 9.0 / Dell PowerEdge 2650's
> Is anyone running OpenAfs production on Suse?
>
> The bos server and volserver on every one of them (12) stopped just
> recently. They had been running 25 days. The fileserver continues to run
> just fine I just cant move any volumes etc .. I also can't gracefully
> shutdown the servers so they all have to be rebooted and run salvager ..
> very ugly.

why can't you gracefully shut them down? bosserver only signals 
fileserverm you can do the same.

> I enabled core files by putting this (ulimit -c 512000) in the startup rc
> script but I didnt get any core files.
>
> Some one suggested backtracing. I am unclear on how to do this .. do I run
> bosserver in debug mode for 25 days?
> Any help would be appreciatted.

backtrace is when you have a core.
you could strace, but 25 days of that would be pretty annoying.