[OpenAFS-devel] Problems with 1.4.8pre2 on Fedora 8

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:54:49 -0400


Is OpenOffice running out of AFS? If not, it sounds like it has its
own bugs, however, it does seem you're also seeing an AFS issues given
the timed out errors.

What's in the kernel message log? Can you enable fstrace? Does it
illuminate anything?


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running OpenAFS version 1.4.8pre2 since yesterday morning on my
> 64 bit Fedora 8 desktop machine with the latest 2.6.26.5-28.fc8 kernel.
>
> I am seeing weird problems resulting in all sorts of problems like:
>
> alfw@melmac > ooffice
> /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/program/soffice: line 147:  5682 Bus error
>       "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"
> alfw@melmac  111> strace -f /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/program/soffice.bin
> [ bunch of stuff deleted ]
> [pid  5647] access("/u/a/alfw", F_OK)   = 0
> [pid  5647] open("/u/a/alfw/.execoooAQZwKI", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) =
> 13
> [pid  5647] unlink("/u/a/alfw/.execoooAQZwKI") = 0
> [pid  5647] ftruncate(13, 176)          = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed
> out)
> [pid  5647] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 13, 0) =
> 0x7f3e5b111000
> [pid  5647] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED, 13, 0) =
> 0x39c000
> [pid  5647] --- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
> [pid  5648] +++ killed by SIGBUS +++
> +++ killed by SIGBUS +++
>
> I can, however, go into my home directory and create files by hand just
> fine.
>
> I see these "Connection timed out" also with access to other files in
> my AFS home volume. Once in a while I can fix this by doing a
> "fs flush /u/a/alfw/" but it doen't always help.
>
> -- Alf.
>
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