[OpenAFS] Client hangs periodically

[Derek Atkins]

Uh, 1.2.10 is current..  1.2.3final is OLD OLD OLD!  You should Upgrade
before trying to diagnose ANY problems.  I'm surprised you could get
1.2.3final to even WORK with 2.4.20!

-derek

Cajus Pollmeier <c.pollmeier@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> strange things are going on. I've tested openafs from one client in our local network. Everything
> worked fine during three months. Now, I did some migration and moved the linux terminal server
> from nfs-client to afs-client. Not that there are many people using their brand new afs based /home
> (only about 15 currently), but I've the problem that there is no reaction from afsd about every two
> hours. I've to reboot the terminalserver to get /afs back. (i.e. every access to /afs via commands
> like ls, cd, etc. stall and are not interruptible via ctrl+c/d)
> 
> I'm using linux-2.4.20 (debian woody kernel sources) in addition to the debian openafs package
> (1.2.3final2). The client is started with these parameters:
> 
> -stat 4000 -dcache 4000 -daemons 6 -volumes 256 -files 50000 -verbose -dynroot -afsdb
> 
> Ok. Back to the problem. I added "-verbose", but I can't find any log/info about problems with
> afsd. The server can be reached from another client and is still serving files, so I guess
> its a client problem.
> 
> I'm relatively new to openafs, so please forgive if I can't specify more detailed informations.
> Where to find it? Server logs look normal to me, except BosLog showing up a "fs:scanner exited with code 2"
> every two minutes. The client doesn't log anything afs related.
> 
> Are there ways to get more debugging information? Or hints on what is going wrong there?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> Greetings,
> Cajus
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