[OpenAFS-devel] volserver dies on linux

[David Thompson]

Kevin Coffman wrote:
>What was the original failure?
>
>I've seem problems in the past where the LWP on the volume server is 
>looping through the vnode index file deleting files and 'forgets' to 
>let the original LWP run to tell the client it is still alive and 
>processing the request.  But this usually gets straightened out when 
>the volume server finally finishes the request.  (Never seen the 
>SIGABRT.)

The original failure is the n+1st vos remove or vos zap.  It fails claiming 
the volume is off-line (which is wrong).  That message repeats for subsequent 
deletes.  Running vos listvol makes the volserver die.

In this case the volserver never clears itself without dying first.

Dave