[OpenAFS] "VL_RegisterAddrs rpc failed"

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:13:24 -0400


>> Maybe if you shut down the fileserver, then do a
>> "vos changeaddr address -remove", then start it up again?  (I don't remember
>> how I fixed that problem here; there was a weird cycle of things that I
>> had to do to fix it).
>
>Remove what address? There is only one listed in "vos listaddr
>-noresolve", and it's the one that should be there. I can't remove it
>anyway:
>
>Could not remove server 70.89.96.37 from the VLDB
>VLDB: volume Id exists in the vldb

I was thinking of removing the address that is in there.  From what I
remember, the problem is that the vlserver thinks another server is
the one that has that IP address (I never figured out how I got
in that situation; I believe you could probably do it by doing a 
"vos changeaddr" to change the vlserver's notion of the server's addrss
to something else, starting the fileserer again, and doing vos syncvldb.

>From looking at the source to the vlserver, it seems like it doesn't
start logging anything interesting unless you have a loglevel of
at least 5.  It might be worth cranking up the loglevel to that
to see if you get some more useful messages in VLLog.

--Ken