[OpenAFS] Help wanted (vos release/volume locked)

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote:

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> Hi!
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> I've got some problems:
> vos examine office
> office                            536871143 RW     662181 K  On-line
> ~    zork.cg.cs.tu-bs.de /vicepb
> ~    RWrite  536871143 ROnly  536871144 Backup          0
> ~    MaxQuota    1024000 K
> ~    Creation    Tue May 18 15:28:06 2004
> ~    Last Update Fri Nov  5 14:41:38 2004
> ~    582 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)
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> ~    RWrite: 536871143     ROnly: 536871144     RClone: 536871144
> ~    number of sites -> 3
> ~       server zork.cg.cs.tu-bs.de partition /vicepb RW Site  -- New 
> release
> ~       server triton.cg.cs.tu-bs.de partition /vicepa RO Site  -- New 
> release
> ~       server tetris.cg.cs.tu-bs.de partition /vicepb RO Site  -- Old 
> release
> ~    Volume is currently LOCKED
>
> So I wanted to release this volume:
> vos release office
> Could not lock the VLDB entry for the volume 536871143.
> VLDB: vldb entry is already locked
> Error in vos release command.
> VLDB: vldb entry is already locked
>
> Even a vos remsite doesn't work.
> Anyone has a tip how to remove this lock and release this 
> office-volume?
> I even tried to release the root.cell and root.afs volumes, with no 
> effect.
> I use 1.3.73 on Debian or 1.2.11 on RedHat.
>

After figuring out why it became that way in the first place ...

vos unlock -id office

Horst