[OpenAFS] no quorom elected again

J S vervoom@hotmail.com
Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:33:06 +0000


>>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
>

I knew about the January bug, that's why I put "again" in the subject. 
Eventhough I upgraded the binaries (downloaded of the IBM site) it still 
gives the old version.

JS.

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