[OpenAFS] "localhost" entries appearing in VLDB & preventing full release of root.cell and other volumes

[Dave COTTLE]

hi afs-ers,

there seems to be a small problem with the root.cell & other volumes here as seen in the VLDB. i'd love some advice on why this might be happening & suggestions how to resolve it.

for some reason many of the volumes have duplicated entries as localhost.muse.net.nz instead of their usual hostname.muse.net.nz. i would have expected that the NetInfo file should prevent this sort of thing from happening & it appears to be correctly set on all afs servers (DB & VOL). for the volume below, only 3 replicas were expected (rw, ro on same partition, ro on other host).

as a result, vos release or similar commands falls over miserably.

platform is OpenBSD 4.0 & 3.9, i386 boxes, openafs1.4.0p4 from packages, running standard ARLA client.

please let me know if any other info might help.

cheers,
dave

root@sendai:/ $ vos exa root.cell
Could not fetch the information about volume 536870915 from the server
: Operation not supported by device
Volume does not exist on server localhost.muse.net.nz as indicated by the VLDB

Dump only information from VLDB

root.cell
    RWrite: 536870915     ROnly: 536870916     RClone: 536870916
    number of sites -> 4
       server continuity.muse.net.nz partition /vicepa RO Site  -- Old release
       server sendai.muse.net.nz partition /vicepa RO Site  -- New release
       server localhost.muse.net.nz partition /vicepa RW Site  -- New release
       server localhost.muse.net.nz partition /vicepa RO Site  -- New release
root@sendai:/ $ cat /etc/hosts
#     $OpenBSD: hosts,v 1.11 2002/09/26 23:35:51 krw Exp $
#
# Host Database
#
# RFC 1918 specifies that these networks are "internal".
# 10.0.0.0      10.255.255.255
# 172.16.0.0    172.31.255.255
# 192.168.0.0   192.168.255.255
#
::1 localhost.muse.net.nz localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.muse.net.nz localhost
::1 sendai.muse.net.nz sendai
127.0.0.1 sendai.muse.net.nz sendai
root@sendai:/ $ cat /etc/hostname.fxp0
inet    10.0.0.3        0xffffff00      NONE
alias   10.0.0.12       0xff000000
alias   10.0.0.20       0xff000000
alias   10.0.0.25       0xff000000
root@sendai:/ $ cat /var/openafs/local/NetInfo
10.0.0.3
root@sendai:/ $