[OpenAFS] Weird Quorum Issues

[Aaron Stanley]

Hartmut,

I did restart each machine after they got the new CellServDB.  I will be
trying tonight to do a full shutdown and restart of the entire cell, but I
was hoping to avoid that.

 - AB


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> From: Hartmut Reuter <reuter@rzg.mpg.de>
> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:58:06 +0100
> To: Aaron Stanley <astanley@strozllc.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Weird Quorum Issues
> 
> Aaron Stanley wrote:
>> I used to have three database/file servers with IP: 10.1.0.16, 10.1.1.16,
>> 10.1.2.16.  I added a fourth last night in the hopes that it might stabilize
>> the situation with IP 10.1.0.18.
>> 
>> All four servers show up in the same order when I do a bos listhosts on
>> them.  They were restarted after I added the fourth database server last
>> night.
>> 
>> The CellServDB gets synchronized to the other three servers from the primary
>> one using the upserver/upclient, and they are all in sync there.
>> 
>>  - AB
>> 
>> 
> ok, but did you restart all the database instances on all database
> servers after you changed the CellServDB? They read the CellServDB only
> on start! If you did not some of them may have wrong ideas about the
> configuration of your cell.
> 
> -Hartmut
> 
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