On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] Rubino Gei� wrote: > > > This morning one of our fileservers (OpenAFS 1.2.8, rh8.0) stopped serving > > files. Doing bos status, ping, rxdebug and looking at the log files at most > > everything seemed to be ok. Only the BosLog showed constantly restarting > > file / salv processes. > > I'll guess that this also was "main thread of fileserver died" > > > Can anybody tell us how to get rid of these nasty features ;) > > Not unless you can actually get us a core or something else to work from.
Ok, so the goal is to get a core, and the problem is the pthread fileserver on linux, like any other pthreaded process, doesn't drop a core and take the whole process when it dies. I'll suggest that you can get us a core by building and running a kernel with a patch. The instructions are here: http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/projects/mtcoredumps/ However more current version of the patch is in this message: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-50/0389.html you'll need to save as text and run munpack to get the patch out. Also, there's an improved version in 2.5 kernels which RedHat has backported in their Rawhide kernels that didn't work as of about the same time: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-50/0473.html but if you use a Rawhide kernel, make your life easier and just make sys_call_table be exported before you build the kernel. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
