[OpenAFS] releasing volumes problems...please help

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rogelio Bazán Reyes wrote:

> Hi, i have the next problem:
>  From today in the morning, we have had problems releasing volumes, when
> we try to release a volume, we get the error below:
>
> {kronos:/afs/.gfi}% vos release testRbr
> Could not lock the VLDB entry for the volume 1638171699.
> u: no quorum elected
> Error in vos release command.
> u: no quorum elected
>
> This error is when we try to release any volume, not just some of them,
> all!!!!

If it were just some, that would be disturbing.

make sure all the dbservers have the same set of machines listed for the
cell in /usr/afs/etc/CellServDB, and make sure the vlserver process is
running ok on all of them.