[OpenAFS] no quorum elected

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, March 18, 2004 17:42:51 -0600 John Morris 
<openafs@butchwax.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> My openafs system has this problem:
>
>   # vos move root.mail kug /vicepa nixon /vicepa
>   Could not lock entry for volume 536871065
>      u: no quorum elected
>
> I guessed that it was the 2004-01-10 bug, so I've been upgrading my
> servers.
>
> There are three file servers; I've upgraded two already from 1.2.9 to
> 1.2.11.  The third still runs 1.2.9, and it's going to be scary
> upgrading it 'cause it's physically about 200 miles away from me, and
> the way the first two went, it's a coin-flip whether I'll need to get
> on the console.
>
> Anyway, I figured that getting 2 of 3 would give me a quorum, but the
> machines still have the same problem.  Does this bug affect the whole
> system if only one machine is running the old version, or do I have a
> different problem?

The bug prevents establishment of quorum if the machine that should become 
coordinator (normally the one with the numerically-lowest IP address) is 
not running the new version.