[OpenAFS] no synchronization

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, January 12, 2004 14:59:21 +0100 Frank Reibold <afsinfo@web.de> 
wrote:

> The synchronization of my database servers does not work. The time is
> accurate due to XNTP and there are no ongoing updates (I have tested the
> common causes of this problem).

Except today, the most common cause of the problem is that it is after 
January 10, 2004 13:38:03 UTC and your database servers are still running 
something older than OpenAFS 1.2.11. :-)

There is a bug in all IBM AFS versions(*) and OpenAFS versions older than 
1.2.11 which causes quorum election to always fail after that date.  The 
solution is to upgrade to OpenAFS 1.2.11; there is no workaround.


(*) IBM has released updated ptserver, vlserver, kaserver, and buserver 
binaries which contain a fix for this problem.

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