[OpenAFS] Occasional "VLDB: no permission access for call"

Ian Wienand iwienand@redhat.com
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:48:31 +1100


On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:29:27AM -0400, Jeffrey E Altman wrote:
> openstack.org also deployed a new database server and this problem is most
> likely due to a failure to synchronize the super-user list onto the new
> vlserver.  If the vos command randomly chooses to speak with the new
> vlserver instance first, it receives a permission denied error and does not
> contact any other servers.

Thank you, an astute observation as usual :) Ensuring all afsdb
servers have the same /etc/openafs/server/UserList via our
configuration deployment has solved this and I can "vos release" in a
loop as much as I want.

Many thanks,

-i