[OpenAFS] Problem on OpenAFS server

[Christof Hanke]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009 17:22:54 Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:
> My cell currently has 3 servers.  On one server (afs1), I find that the
> fileserver and volserver are continuously being restarted.  The contents
> of /usr/afs/log/FileLog.old are:
>
> Wed Feb 25 14:46:34 2009 File server starting
> Wed Feb 25 14:48:04 2009 Cannot initialize RX
>  bind failed
>
That is the problem.
Check if there is another instance of the fileserver running, which is not in 
control of this bosserver, or if some other program blocks port 7000.

HTH,

Christof
> The end of /usr/afs/log/BosLog reads:
>
> Wed Feb 25 14:43:34 2009: fs:salv exited with code 0
> Wed Feb 25 14:45:04 2009: fs:file exited with code 1
> Wed Feb 25 14:45:04 2009: fs:vol exited on signal 15
> Wed Feb 25 14:45:04 2009: fs:salv exited with code 0
> Wed Feb 25 14:46:34 2009: fs:file exited with code 1
> Wed Feb 25 14:46:34 2009: fs:vol exited on signal 15
> Wed Feb 25 14:46:34 2009: fs:salv exited with code 0
> Wed Feb 25 14:48:04 2009: fs:file exited with code 1
> Wed Feb 25 14:48:04 2009: fs:vol exited on signal 15
> Wed Feb 25 14:48:04 2009: fs:salv exited with code 0
>
> Can anyone give me a clue about what is happening, and how I should fix
> it ?  Please ask if there is more information required; we are running
> opernafs-1.4.6-58 on Scientific Linux version 4.6 (very similar to
> RedHat EL version 4.6).
>
> The output of command "bos status" for all systems (afs[1-3]) is normal.
>
> Jonathan Wheeler
> e-Science Centre
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory