[OpenAFS] strange volserv error

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Sep 1, 2004, at 8:25 PM, superhase66@freenet.de wrote:

> hy ,
>
>  has anybody ever seen this error in the vol serv log while doing a 
> vos restore overwrite full ?
>
>  Sat Aug 28 04:31:12 2004 VCreateVolume: Header file 
> /vicepca/V0536879056.vol already exists!
>  Sat Aug 28 04:34:28 2004 1 Volser: Delete: volume 536879056 deleted
>  Sat Aug 28 04:34:28 2004 1 Volser: CreateVolume: volume 536879056 
> (f536874629) created
>  Sat Aug 28 04:39:43 2004 trans 7283185 on volume 536879056 is older 
> than 300 seconds
>
...
>  Sat Aug 28 05:12:13 2004 trans 7283185 on volume 536879056 is older 
> than 2250 seconds
>  Sat Aug 28 05:12:38 2004 trans 7283185 on volume 536879056 is older 
> than 2280 seconds
>  Sat Aug 28 05:17:27 2004 1 Volser: Delete: volume 536879056 deleted
>  Sat Aug 28 05:17:27 2004 1 Volser: XListVolumes: Could not attach 
> volume 536879056
>

the beginning is totally normal to a restore process and then one of 
the transactions gets stalled for whatever reason.
The transaction garbage collector prints that message about "... older 
than.. seconds.".

After that, strange things happen ... your pretty new volume gets 
deleted. That's something I don't understand but maybe you're using 
some kind of script.


>  Filelog shows :
>
>  Sat Aug 28 05:17:30 2004 Volume 536879056: couldn't reread volume 
> header
>

This one's quite normal, too, since your volume isn't there...

>  we are running Openafs 1.2.11 on Linux 86
>
>  any help would be nice ...
>

Horst