[OpenAFS] File server, bos salvage hang

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> triggers it, or how to prevent it? Or is it just random luck that few
>> have seen it sofar?
>
> I'm mystified here; it just all of a sudden started happening to us
> without any changes that I'm aware of.  But that one-liner completely
> fixed it.

Somewhere a newer client was deployed that routinely tried to read 
something and got an error.

> It's possible that the bos salvage is actually unrelated; your vlserver
> may have already hung and it just happened that the first command that you
> ran on it after it hung so that you noticed was a bos salvage.

Well, the error being *on* a gconf file would be consistent.