[OpenAFS] UBIK error installing additional database server on 1.2.10

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, April 04, 2005 02:52:36 PM -0700 Gabe Castillo 
<gabelists@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>   I'm getting an error after adding database functionality to a 2nd
> fileserver with OpenAFS 1.2.10.  The error"Waiting for quorum election."
> fills up the logs on the server I was trying to add database server
> functionality to. I've read that this is a bug in 1.2.10. My question is
> if I add /usr/afs/db to the upclientetc process on the new db server,
> will this allow me to remove the db functionality from the first and ONLY
> db server. I looked at the files in the /usr/afs/db directory, and they
> are not the same. Also, is it safe to just scp that directory to the new
> server and run it as the dbserver with the original shut down.

If all you want to do is move your one-and-only database server from one 
machine to another, then yes, you can just scp the contents of /usr/afs/db 
to the new server.

If you actually want to run multiple database servers, then you must 
upgrade to 1.2.11 or newer.

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