[OpenAFS] Win 1.5.52 service does not startup

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Lars Schimmer wrote:
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
>> >From your afsd_init.log:
> 
>> 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= 0,
>> rcn= cgv.tugraz.at
> 
>> 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:
> 
>> 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 in
>> root cell (code = -1)
> 
>> a - dumping cells - cm_data.currentCells=2, cm_data.maxCells=1024
>> a cellp=0x02A1C550,name=Freelance.Local.Cell ID=-1 flags=0x38
>> a cellp=0x02A1C688,name=cgv.tugraz.at ID=2 flags=0x30
>> a - Done dumping cells.
> 
>> 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.
> 
>> 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

If you want the clients to start when the root.afs volume is not
available, use Freelance mode.

Jeffrey Altman

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