[OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Miles Davis wrote:

>
> On occasion, we have the classic gconf problem, where for reasons I don't
> know (but have heard have been fixed in 1.3.X) where a user's gconf lock

i don't believe so

> file .gconfd/lock/ior becomes corrupt and/or unusable, requiring a salvage
> of the volume. Normally, not a big deal, it happens only rarely. However,
> I've got a file server that I can no longer salvage volumes on; Running
> bos salvage <server> <part> <vol> never finishes, and the file server is
> never quite the same again until a restart (killing the file server) or
> reboot. By "never quite the same" I mean things like 'vol listvol' fails,
> though the file server it sill working for volume other than the one being
> salvaged. I haven't seen this behaviour with any of our other file
> servers, ever.

does it start? does the volume actually go offline?