[OpenAFS] Re: vos listaddrs and "fake" fileserver addresses

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:17:49 -0400


make sure vos listvl -server (the bogus address) returns nothing, or  
you aren't done

Derrick


On Sep 10, 2009, at 21:14, "Ryan C. Underwood" <nemesis-lists@icequake.net 
 > wrote:

>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:21:22PM -0500, Ryan C. Underwood wrote:
>>
>> Okay, now on the other fileserver, I've got a new interesting problem
>> after restarting the fs process.
>>
>> # cat FileLog
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 File server starting
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 afs_krb_get_lrealm failed, using icequake.net 
>> .
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 /var/lib/openafs/local/sysid: doesn't exist
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 Creating new SysID file
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 VL_RegisterAddrs rpc failed; The IP  
>> address exists on a different server; repair it
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 VL_RegisterAddrs rpc failed; See VLLog for  
>> details
>> Thu Sep 10 18:19:11 2009 Fatal error in library initialization,  
>> exiting!!
>>
>> VLLog?  Nothing really useful in there, it seems.
>>
>> # cat VLLog
>> Thu Sep 10 18:18:34 2009 Using 10.0.1.232 as my primary address
>> Thu Sep 10 18:18:34 2009 Starting AFS vlserver 4 (/usr/lib/openafs/ 
>> vlserver)
>
> I resolved this by issuing vos changeaddr for the old server IP to a
> dummy address and then allowing the server to come back up and
> re-register.  Everything is working now.
>
> -- 
> Ryan C. Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>