[OpenAFS-devel] Problems with shutting down afsd

[Derek Atkins]

The only way around it is to make sure all processes are closed
before you kill AFS.

-derek

Kangesh Gunaseelan <kangesh@real.com> writes:

> At 07:52 PM 5/3/01 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >Are you sure that you don't have any processes running out of AFS?
> 
> Actually, that might be it.  I did have a process that was accessing file
> from the AFS file space.  The process is now defunct.  It may not have
> closed files, I guess.  I am unable to kill that process and unable to stop
> AFSD.  
> The only option is to reboot the system.  
> By the way, is there any way to get around this type of behavior?  
> 
> Thanks.
> Kangesh
> 
> 
> Are you sure that you're not sitting in an AFS directory?
> >
> >You cannot stop AFS if something is keeping AFS open.  I've seen this
> >behavior if, for example, you have a shell sitting in an AFS directory
> >when you try to stop AFS.
> >
> >-derek
> >
> >Kangesh Gunaseelan <kangesh@real.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> We are observing a behavior where stopping afs (/etc/rc.d/init.d/afs stop)
> >> wouldn't cause a shutdown of afsd - we see "umount: /afs: device is busy
> >> and libafs-2.2.16-22: Device or resource busy".  The only way around is to
> >> really reboot the machine.  What is the proper way of shutting down AFS?
> >> Is this a known problem?  We are using the binaries from OpenAFS 1.0.3.  
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kangesh
> >> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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