[OpenAFS] Server (file) host wedge: WARNING: osi_NetIfPoller: ldi_open_by_name failed: 19

[Jeff Blaine]

Thanks all.  Happy holiday(s) of choice.

On 12/24/2011 4:49 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> I'm fairly sure this is a Solaris bug.  The error indicates that
> /dev/udp is an unknown device.  OpenAFS used to panic when this
> condition was reached.  The versions you are using will continue
> to operate and simply fail to update the current interface list.
>
> However, the root cause of the problem is outside of OpenAFS.  You
> should contact Oracle for a fix.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> On 12/24/2011 2:15 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure this is the 2nd time we've seen this
>> now.
>>
>> AFS fileserver ur.our.org wedged today.  Our monitoring
>> shows CPU usage pegged at 100% right when the problem
>> happened (didn't escalate over hours...).
>>
>> SunOS ur.our.org 5.10 Generic_144488-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
>>
>> /:ur # strings /kernel/fs/sparcv9/afs | grep OpenAFS
>> @(#) OpenAFS 1.4.14 built  2011-07-07
>> /:ur # strings /usr/afs/bin/fileserver | grep OpenAFS
>> @(#) OpenAFS 1.4.11 built  2009-07-14
>> /:ur #
>>
>> It had been up 20 days (almost exactly).
>>
>> The console showed repeating:
>>
>>      WARNING: osi_NetIfPoller: ldi_open_by_name failed: 19
>>
>> No console login possible, no SSH possible.  Had to
>> force-stop the OS.  Issuing 'sync' at the 'ok' prompt
>> to force a crash dump generated tons of SCSI reset
>> errors,
>>
>>
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