[OpenAFS] Re: Major synchronization error

[Jack Hill]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Jack Hill wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today when I was creating a user in the pt database when I received a
> "major synchronization error" message.
>
> The steps that I took:
> 0) pts createuser foo
> 1) see error "major synchronization error ; unable to create user foo
> with id 42"
> 2) Trying to add foo to groups with pts adduser foo groupname fails.
> 3) Steps 0-2 were done in quick succession via a script. I manually ran
> pts examine foo, and everything appeared fine.
> 4) I could add the user to groups manually with pts adduser.
> 5) I tried to create another user, bar, outside of the script to confirm
> that everything is okay (pts createuser bar).
> 6) This fails with "database is inconsistent ; unable to create bar"
> 7) I tried restarting all the ptserver processes (bos restart
> machine.domain.tld ptserver), but that did not change anything.
> 8) I can still add and remove users from groups, but I cannot create
> them.
>
> This is with openafs 1.4.6. (yes, I am embarrassed at how old that is,
> but I have other work to do and can't get them upgraded overnight.) In
> my Internet search I was only able to find this [0]. All of our
> CellServDB are in sync. Ideas on how to troubleshoot?
>
> Jack
>
> [0]
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2006-May/022665.html

Please ignore this; is was user error. I can create users if I specify 
there id. I cannot let the ptserver choose it since our current maxid is 
2147483647.

Jack