[OpenAFS] Vos move/release failure

[Jason Edgecombe]

Sidney Cammeresi wrote:
> One of my fileservers is returning errors when I try to move or release
> certain volumes to it.  For example,
>
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>
> $ vos ex test
> test                              536871126 RW          2 K  On-line
>     good /vicepa 
>     RWrite  536871126 ROnly  536871133 Backup          0 
>     MaxQuota       5000 K 
>     Creation    Sun Apr  4 12:40:27 2010
>     Copy        Sun Apr  4 12:41:53 2010
>     Backup      Never
>     Last Update Never
>
>     RWrite: 536871126 
>     number of sites -> 1
>        server good partition /vicepa RW Site 
> $ vos move test good a bad a
>
> Failed to move data for the volume 536871126
>    : No such file or directory
> vos move: operation interrupted, cleanup in progress...
> clear transaction contexts
> move incomplete - attempt cleanup of target partition - no guarantee
> cleanup complete - user verify desired result
>
> ----------
>
> All I see in VolserLog on the bad server is
>
> Sun Apr  4 12:50:09 2010 VAttachVolume: Failed to open /vicepa/V0536871126.vol (errno 2)
> Sun Apr  4 12:50:09 2010 1 Volser: CreateVolume: volume 536871126 (test) created
> Sun Apr  4 12:50:12 2010 1 Volser: Delete: volume 536871126 deleted
>
>
>
> I deleted the volume "test," and then I performed this sequence of
> commands to get a different failure:
>
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>
> $ vos create bad a test
> Volume 536871134 created on partition /vicepa of bad
> $ vos addsite bad a test
> Added replication site bad /vicepa for volume test
> $ vos addsite good a test
> Added replication site good /vicepa for volume test
> $ vos release test
> Released volume test successfully
> $ vos move test bad a good a
> WARNING : readOnly copies still exist 
> Volume 536871134 moved from bad /vicepa to good /vicepa 
> $ vos release test
> Release failed: VOLSER: Problems encountered in doing the dump !
> The volume 536871134 could not be released to the following 1 sites:
>                      bad /vicepa
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
> Error in vos release command.
> VOLSER: release could not be completed
>
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>
> Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?  Thanks for your
> suggestions.
>   

What platform, OS, and fileystem do the servers run?

Have you tried salvaging the servers (requires downtime), if not, run:
    bos salvage -server good -part /vicepa
    bos salvage -server bad -part /vicepa

Jason