[OpenAFS] File server allegedly unavailable

Holger Brueckner lists@net-labs.de
05 Feb 2002 11:40:35 +0100


On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 11:24, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> One machine is showing the following symptoms:  when I start
> openafs, 'fs checks' reports that 'All servers are running'.
> Then I do ls on a directory in AFS.  The response is
> 'Connection timed out'.  After this, 'fs checks' reports that
> 'These servers unavailable due to network or server problems:  ice.mcc.ac.uk.'
> These 'network or server problems' however are not affecting any
> of the other 20 machines, all of which (along with the server)
> are on the same segment.

did you exchange the network card, check cables and the switch
configuration ... looks like a hardware problem to me.
a memory test could also be usefull ...

cya

Holger