[OpenAFS] no quorom elected again

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, April 30, 2004 13:57:22 +0200 Hendrik Hoeth 
<hendrik.hoeth@cern.ch> wrote:

> Thus spake Ted Anderson (TedAnderson@mindspring.com):
>
>> I am pretty sure that AFS 3.6 was the basis for OpenAFS, so this
>> server binary has to be 5 years old.  Can that be right?
>>
>> On the other hand there isn't any reason to think that no quorom
>> problems are caused by this.
>
> 11-Jan-2004 bug?
>
> Just a thought, even though I don't believe it (should have shown up
> earlier ...).

Some people just don't make database changes that often, I guess.

Yes, an afs3.5 3.60 build will have the January bug.  If the machine that 
should be coordinator is running this build, it will be impossible to 
establish a quorum and thus no database changes can be made.

To correct this problem, you should upgrade at least your ptserver, 
vlserver, kaserver, and buserver binaries (if you run them) on any machine 
that might be elected a Ubik coordinator.  Versions that will work are:

- OpenAFS 1.2.11 or later 1.2.x
- OpenAFS 1.3.52 or later
- IBM AFS 3.5 patch 9.1 or later
Or use the patched binaries released by IBM on 10-Jan-2004.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA