[OpenAFS] Lost contact with file server

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Enrique G=E1mez Flores wrote:

>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> =09I'm currently running openafs-1.2.3, on a Linux box (2.4.16). At
> this moment we have only one server/client and a client. When we reboot
> the server, we get this
>=20
> afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(22)

The above implies:

> Starting AFS cache scan...found 468 non-empty cache files (9%).
> afs: Lost contact with file server 148.228.125.13 in cell fcfm.buap.mx
>   (all multi-homed ip addresses down for the server)
> afs: Lost contact with file server 148.228.125.13 in cell fcfm.buap.mx
>   (all multi-homed ip addresses down for the server)
> afs: file server 148.228.125.13 in cell fcfm.buap.mx is back up
>   (multi-homed address; other same-host interfaces may still be down)
> afs: file server 148.228.125.13 in cell fcfm.buap.mx is back up
>   (multi-homed address; other same-host interfaces may still be down)
>=20
>=20
> so we cannot mount AFS on the server machine, but when we start AFS on th=
e
> other machine (the client), we can!, and we don't get any message. So,
> could you please help me with this, telling me how can i solve it. When w=
e
> install AFS, for the first time, we didn't get any problem.

figure out why the network traffic isn't getting through and you'll have
your answer. Is the client CellServDB the same on both? Is one behind NAT
while the other isn't? tcpdump port 7000 may be helpful.