[OpenAFS] Re: Volser: GetVolInfo: Could not attach volume (/vicepa:) error=101

[Dan Scott]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:30, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:22:34 -0500
> Dan Scott <danieljamesscott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Do FileLog or SalvageLog mention that volume? (either by id number
>> > or by name)
>>
>> FileLog doesn't. The last entry just shows:
>>
>> Mon Jan 30 15:06:08 2012 File Server started Mon Jan 30 15:06:08 2012
>>
>> The SalvageLog shows salvage entries for all volumes on the partition
>> (including the one which gave an error):
>
> Okay, so what about 'vos examine' ? Or does that still just give an
> error that it can't attach the volume?

I've just managed to fix it. The VLDB was out of sync. Once I ran
'syncvldb', everything started working again.

Thanks for your help/suggestions,

Dan

>> > Also try running 'fs checks', 'fs checkv', and 'fs flushm
>> > /afs/example.com/volume' on the client, and see if that makes any
>> > difference.
>>
>> djscott@pc35:~$ fs checks
>> All servers are running.
>> djscott@pc35:~$ fs checkv
>> All volumeID/name mappings checked.
>> djscott@pc35:~$
>>
>> The flushm didn't help. Still saying 'No such device'.
>
> How busy are the client and fileserver here? Can you get debug
> information from them? There's a few things that could be wrong, so it
> can be easier to just look more closely at the error than just checking
> random stuff. If the client is not busy doing other things in AFS, run
> this as root:
>
> fstrace clear cm
> fstrace setlog cmfx -buffers 200
> fstrace sets cm -active
> ls /afs/example.com/volume # should give 'No such device'
> fstrace dump cm > /tmp/fstrace.log
> fstrace sets cm -inactive
>
> And put the fstrace.log file somewhere where I can look at it. That will
> contain some information about your cell, like volume names, and
> possibly filenames, IP addresses, etc. So if you're not comfortable with
> that, then we can try other stuff.
>
> --
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net
>
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