[OpenAFS] vos release problem: Problems encountered in doing the dump

[Dimitris Zilaskos]

This problem still persists. Clue anyone?

Cheers,

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:

>
> 	Hello,
>
> 	When I returned from vacation I found out that volume replication is 
> failing. The first problem occured on August, 8:
>
> user.someuser
>    RWrite: 536870930     ROnly: 536870931
>    number of sites -> 2
>       server server1.physics.auth.gr partition /vicepa RW Site
>       server server2.physics.auth.gr partition /vicepa RO Site
> This is a complete release of volume 536870930
> Cloning RW volume 536870930 to temporary RO... done
> Getting status of RW volume 536870930... done
> Ending cloning transaction on RW volume 536870930... done
> Starting transaction on cloned volume 536870931... done
> Failed to start a transaction on the RO volume.
> Possible communication failure
> The volume 536870930 could not be released to the following 1 sites:
> 	           server2.physics.auth.gr /vicepa
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
> Error in vos release command.
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
>
> And on the next day:
>
> user.someuser
>    RWrite: 536870930     ROnly: 536870931     RClone: 536870931
>    number of sites -> 2
>       server server1.physics.auth.gr partition /vicepa RW Site  -- New 
> release
>       server server2.physics.auth.gr partition /vicepa RO Site  -- Old 
> release
> This is a complete release of volume 536870930
> Cloning RW volume 536870930 to temporary RO... done
> Getting status of RW volume 536870930... done
> Ending cloning transaction on RW volume 536870930... done
> Starting transaction on cloned volume 536870931... done
> Updating existing ro volume 536870931 on server2.physics.auth.gr ...
> Starting ForwardMulti from 536870931 to 536870931 on server2.physics.auth.gr 
> (as of Thu Dec 22 19:04:45 2005).
> Failed to dump volume from clone to a ro site: VOLSER:  Problems encountered 
> in reading the dump file !
> The volume 536870930 could not be released to the following 1 sites:
> 	           server2.physics.auth.gr /vicepa
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
> Error in vos release command.
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
>
> and it goes on like that for all volumes on server1 ever since.
>
> command used: vos release -verbose -f
>
> Filelog on server1:
>
> fssync: volume 536870931 restored; breaking all call backs
>
> On server2:
> fssync: volume 536870931 restored; breaking all call backs
>
> VolserLog on server1:
> Sun Sep  3 13:32:49 2006 1 Volser: ListVolumes: Volume 536870931 
> (V0536870931.vol) will be destroyed on next salvage
> Sun Sep  3 13:32:49 2006 1 Volser: Delete: volume 536870931 deleted
> Sun Sep  3 13:32:49 2006 1 Volser: Clone: Cloning volume 536870930 to new 
> volume 536870931
>
> and on server2:
> Sun Sep  3 13:32:49 2006 1 Volser: ReadVnodes: Restore aborted
>
> 	server1 is 1.3.86. server2 is 1.4.1. Both 2.6 series linux 
> systems.Replication has been working without any problem for more than a 
> year.
> I have tried removing replication and readding, and the result was the same.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> 	Best regards,
> --
> ============================================================================
>
> Dimitris Zilaskos
>
> Department of Physics @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece
> PGP key : http://tassadar.physics.auth.gr/~dzila/pgp_public_key.asc
> 	  http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~dzila/pgp_public_key.asc MD5sum : 
> de2bd8f73d545f0e4caf3096894ad83f pgp_public_key.asc 
> ============================================================================