[OpenAFS-devel] volserver hangs that never recover...

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> Running with current cvs...
>
> I still see these occasionally... only solution usually is to shut down
> the file server completely, and kill -KILL the fileserver process -
> because almost always it will hang while attempting to unmount a
> particular volume (but never the same volume)...

Is it volserver or tvolserver?

> Unfortunately, I don't really have any good diagnostics, other than that
> when it's hung, it always seems to be waiting for I/O over a socket
> to/from the file server. Killing volserver doesn't have any effect - it
> winds up just being stuck in the same or similar state.

gcore, and look. it's probably waiting for fssync ack.

likewise, what's in filelog? volserlog?