[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.4.5 on Solaris 10/x86 - spurious pid(s) in ctstat and ocassional kernel panics

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:12:22 -0500


In message <20071127061734.GB8139@unimelb.edu.au>,Robert Sturrock writes:
>    $ ctstat -vi 48   
>    CTID    ZONEID  TYPE    STATE   HOLDER  EVENTS  QTIME   NTIME   
>    48      0       process owned   7       0       -       -       
>	    cookie:                0x20
>	    informative event set: none
>	    critical event set:    core signal hwerr empty
>	    fatal event set:       none
>	    parameter set:         inherit regent
>	    member processes:      335 336 338 343 344 345 346 347 1936749667
>	    inherited contracts:   none
>
>pids 335-347 are afsd pides, but 1936749667 is obviously not valid!

i remember having problem before when afsd made its syscalls to create
the kernel threads.  i dont remember what i was doing to try to fix
this issue.