[OpenAFS] bosserver death

[Steve Devine]

Miles Davis wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:05:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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>>Miles Davis <miles@CS.Stanford.EDU> writes:
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>>>Wow, bosserver just died on every single one of my AFS servers running 
>>>1.2.13 within the past hour. 1.3.x servers seem to be ok. My bad luck, 
>>>or another counter bug?
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>>We're running 1.2.13 and everything looks fine so far here.
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>Bugger. Wish I had more info, but of course bosserver died silently. On 
>a few of the systems, volserver died with it, which reminds me of an 
>old problem I and some others had on earlier 1.3.x's. Assuming Mike 
>Newton hasn't found some Rx killer plugin for nessus, I'll just hope for 
>the best as I sit here and watch the callback breaks. :)
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I had this over and over again running 1.2.13 on Suse9.0
turned out to be a wierd bug that killed the bosservers after a set 
number of seconds had elapsed. (23 ~24 days)
Here is the bug id .. don't know if the link is still good.
http://grand.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=17990
However upgrading to 1.3.82 fixed it.
/sd

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