On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi -
>
> > > > $ gdb /usr/afs/bin/fileserver ./corevol.fs
> > >
> > > corevol.fs should be volserver
> >
> > Well, originally I thought too, but after I used gdb and it said the
> > core was generated by fileserver, I quit gdb session, run file(1)
> > and it also said filerserver. Can you explain why is it named
> > volserver.fs then?
>
> The core files can get renamed incorrectly if the bosserver has to
> deal with 2 cores in quick succession.  Most likely the fileserver and
> voslerver processes cored around the same time and when the bosserver
> process was renaming the "core" file to corevol.fs (thinking the
> volserver just cored), it was really renaming the the core file
> associated with the fileserver process.

Oh, that sucks. So that means that I've lost one of those 2 core files,
right? After I delete the EFS partition, I'll convert to openafs finally,
hopefully today. This machine has IBM afs still. :(


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