[OpenAFS] Win 1.5.52 service does not startup

[Lars Schimmer]

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Jeffrey Altman wrote:

>>From your afsd_init.log:
>=20
> 8/21/2008 9:55:06 AM: Default root volume name root.afs
> 8/21/2008 9:55:06 AM: DNS will not be used to find AFS cell servers
> 8/21/2008 9:55:06 AM: Freelance client feature is not activated
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_GetRootCellName code 0, cm_freelanceEnabled=3D=
 0,
> rcn=3D cgv.tugraz.at
>=20
> In other words you are instructing the client not to start if the VLDB
> server list for 'cgv.tugraz.at' cannot be obtained from the CellServDB
> file or the 'root.afs' volume cannot be located.

I just use the .msi and set just auto obtain tolens active, our DNS does
not hold AFS entries.

> The cache manager attempts to obtain the info for the root.afs volume
> and fails:
>=20
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: cm_FindVolumeByName code 1501 root vol ffffffff
> 8/21/2008 9:55:07 AM: afsd_InitDaemons failed: can't find root volume i=
n
> root cell (code =3D -1)
>=20
> a - dumping cells - cm_data.currentCells=3D2, cm_data.maxCells=3D1024
> a cellp=3D0x02A1C550,name=3DFreelance.Local.Cell ID=3D-1 flags=3D0x38
> a cellp=3D0x02A1C688,name=3Dcgv.tugraz.at ID=3D2 flags=3D0x30
> a - Done dumping cells.
>=20
> Mask 0x2 in the cell flags field indicates the client is trying to
> obtain the CellServDB info from DNS which of course won't happen since
> DNS support is disabled.
>=20
> The question is therefore, why isn't the VLDB info being found in the
> CellServDB file?

I cannot tell.
I did some (cold) restarts of the win machines today and they never came
back to start the OpenAFS service, everytime this error.

Just as the load on server went down a bit, I did a bos restart server
- -all on ALL my db and fileserver.
And now the win machines boot up and AFS service starts like yesterday.

Looks like a bad state of server/client communication, forced with often
up/down of network to one DB/fileserver, which keeps only a RO of the
root.cell/root.afs volumes.

In other words: now it works and I cannot debug any further. And I did
nothing to the clients other than try to restart AFS service and reading
afsd_init.log. I just bos restart all servers (which are all debian, one
1.4.6, three 1.4.7)

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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