[OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I know I've seen this before, but I don't remember what caused it.

Try stracing salvager, and see what file it's looking for just prior to
the error about the inode table. I have a feeling one file is missing.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Underwood
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:05 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged
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> Is there any way I can be more helpful?  We are 100% down=20
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> out how to fix this.
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:43:54AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > After the Linux kernel stupidly killed the fileserver=20
> process in a OOM
> > condition, I can't start the fileserver anymore:
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> > OpenAFS 1.3.74 built  2004-11-29=20
> > 03/16/2005 03:01:33 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4
> > (/usr/lib/openafs/salvager)
> > 03/16/2005 03:01:33 Starting salvage of file system=20
> partition /vicepa
> > 03/16/2005 03:01:33 SALVAGING FILE SYSTEM PARTITION /vicepa
> > (device=3Dvicepa)
> > Unable to read inode table; vicepa not salvaged
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> > All of the volumes are marked as needing salvage because=20
> the fileserver
> > was killed, so I'm not sure what to do next.  There doesn't=20
> seem to be
> > anything obviously wrong with /vicepa.
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> > Aside from the immediate problem, is there any good way to=20
> prevent this
> > from happening again?  All I can find is a vm_overcommit sysctl
> > variable.
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> > Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>
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