[OpenAFS] Solaris 8 Fileserver hangs after upgrade to 1.2.5

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Erwin Broschinski wrote:

> Hi
> 
> 2 weeks ago, I have upgraded a sun4u_58 AFS fileserver from IBM afs3.6 2.26 to
> OpenAFS 1.2.5. (The client software remained IBM).
> The server was running fine, for about 29 hours. Then there was no access to
> the volumes on that server. (Some binaries located in volumes on that server
> were hanging when started and '/bin/ls -l' froze.)

perhaps you should SEGV the fileserver and tell us what it (was) doing?

> As root I could (localauth) bos uninstall. A following restart of the
> bosserver to activate the 'old' binaries was hanging, until a kill -9 of the
> fileserver process. This freed the bos restart and the fileserver started
> salvaging. It was then up and running again with the old server binaries in
> /usr/afs/bin.
> 
> (SalvageLog had some entries that I can't remember to have seen before:
> 08/06/2002 16:53:33 dir vnode 1049: special old unlink-while-referenced file
> .__afsB90E is deleted (vnode 36346))

This is normal.

> OpenAFS runs currently on 2 other Suns with Sol. 2.6 without problems, but on
> machines with replicas only. All the other servers in our cell are still IBM
> afs3.6 2.26
> 
> Any idea?

None particularly.