[OpenAFS] Possible problem with openafs-client or modules 1.4.2

[Jose Calhariz]

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:07:23PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> >>Except that code path can't cause a corrupted file. It may be related b=
ut
> >>that error message (in the fileserver) is not a cause of that client
> >>problem.
> >
> >In my tests the compilation sometimes abort, because of a timeout
> >comunicating with the fileserver, usually happened during a vos
> >backupsys of all volumes.
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> Can you get tcpdump from the client's point of view? Basically, at some=
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> point the client is marking the server down, I assume. The question is on=
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> the basis of what.

Yes I can. How much detail do you need?  I may need run the tcpdump
for hours to catch the error and the capture file needs to fit on the
empty space of the disk.


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> >Looking for errors in the fileserver I had seen "FindClient: stillborn
> >client" in some of the cases.  Can it be possible when a client is
> >hitting very hard a fileserver, with reads and writes, for this error
> >to happen?
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> Yes. But, that's not necessarily related to the problem you're
> having.

Ok

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> >What I can do to pinpoint the cause of the problem?
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> As above.

I am running it, now.

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> >I can think this problem can hit my prodution clients and servers if I
> >do an upgrade to 1.4.2, now they use 1.3.81, 1.4.0, 1.4.1.
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> There's no new code in 1.4.2 which would cause this. That server log=20
> message was also in 1.4.1, for instance.
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> Derrick
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    Jos=E9 Calhariz

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