[OpenAFS] backup->buserver 1.4.2 hangs/loops on gettimeofday

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:34:09 -0500


On Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:48:09 AM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, John W. Sopko Jr. wrote:
>
>> When /etc/init.d/openafs-client runs it builds a new CellServDB. As
>> we know the servers /usr/afs/etc/CellServDB should only contain the
>> db servers for the cell. The buserver got confused with all the server
>
> Mine certainly contains everything. Apparently this is a piece of
> knowledge I lack.

No; it's knowledge you've forgotten, because it wasn't all that important.
Various documentation used to claim that the server-side CellServDB must 
contain an entry for the local cell, and must _not_ contain any other 
entries.  The latter is not true, and AFAIK it has never been true.