[OpenAFS] Unable to move volumes

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:20:19 -0500 (EST)


Unnecessary to cc me.

>> Namei or inode?
>
> Namei
>
> I'm unsure why the file would exist, but if it's namei, I
>> suppose you could use a syscall tracer and see what's getting EEXIST, I'd
>> be curious to hear what you have that's in the way.
>
> I have traced volserver on the destination of the failing move. Unfortunately
> I could not use truss (# truss -p 15496
> truss: 0915-023 Cannot control process #15496.). So I had to trace the kernel.
> You find the trace report in
> /afs/uni-freiburg.de/usr/b/borrmann/public/volsertrace
> I traced FILE ACTIVITY (open,close,read,write).
> Hope you'll find a hint what is wrong with this partition.

i'm not going to look at it now. i told you what you're looking for. 
something tries to open a file in /vicep(whichever) with O_CREAT and gets 
EEXIST

grep should find it for you. get the file it's trying to open out of the 
way.