[OpenAFS] vicepa not detected

[Dimitris Zilaskos]

 	Hello,

One openafs server suddenly lost awareness of two of its hard disk drives 
in the raid array. After checking the cables and rebooting the array came 
online and was fscked without serious errors. However afs behaves like 
there is nothing in /vicepa, while in fact everything seems to be present.

pwd

/vicepa

ls

AFSIDat          V0536914092.vol  V0536914699.vol  V0536915306.vol 
V0536915913.vol  V0536916520.vol
Lock             V0536914093.vol  V0536914700.vol  V0536915307.vol 
V0536915914.vol  V0536916521.vol
V0536870913.vol  V0536914094.vol  V0536914701.vol  V0536915308.vol 
V0536915915.vol  V0536916522.vol

[...]

/usr/afs/bin/vos listvol -server server -localauth -verbose 
[nothing]

/usr/afs/bin/vos partinfo -server server -localauth -verbose
[nothing]

/usr/afs/bin/bos status -server server -long
bos: a pioctl failed (getting tickets)
bos: running unauthenticated
Instance ptserver, (type is simple) currently running normally.
     Process last started at Thu Mar 29 21:28:37 2007 (1 proc starts)
     Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/ptserver'

Instance vlserver, (type is simple) currently running normally.
     Process last started at Thu Mar 29 21:28:37 2007 (1 proc starts)
     Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/vlserver'

Instance fs, (type is fs) currently running normally.
     Auxiliary status is: file server running.
     Process last started at Thu Mar 29 21:28:37 2007 (3 proc starts)
     Last exit at Thu Mar 29 21:28:37 2007
     Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/fileserver'
     Command 2 is '/usr/afs/bin/volserver'
     Command 3 is '/usr/afs/bin/salvager'

/usr/afs/bin/bos salvage -server server -partition vicepa -localauth

tail /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog
@(#) OpenAFS 1.3.86 built  2005-08-05
03/29/2007 22:10:43 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/afs/bin/salvager -f 
/vicepa)
03/29/2007 22:10:43 salvage: Unknown or unmounted partition /vicepa; 
salvage aborted

I tried restarting openafs many times, nothing changed.

Running on Gentoo, Linux kernel 2.6

Any tips are welcomed.


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Dimitris Zilaskos

Department of Physics @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece
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