[OpenAFS-devel] cvs build 7FEB06 - stuck in salvaging filesystem mode

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, February 07, 2006 03:10:47 PM -0600 "Christopher D. Clausen" 
<cclausen@acm.org> wrote:

> I just built openafs from CVS (as recomened by Mr. Altman and with a
> patch from Mr. Brashear) on sun4x_510.
>
> It installed fine, but as soon as afs started, a salvage started (normal
> operation) and seems to be in the "salvaging filesystem" state forever.
> Also, I don't see the salvager process running like I do on my other
> systems (during the salvage.)  If I run the salvager -force manually (not
> sure if this is good to do or not) it finishes after writing to the
> SalvageLog, but bos still thinks that the salvager is running.

Run 'bos status -long'; I bet you'll see that there are a number of 
restarts, indicating that the fileserver is always exiting abnormally, 
triggering a salvage.

Then look at the FileLog and see _why_ the fileserver is aborting.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA