>From what you have described it sounds to me like you need the patch that >Andrew referenced earlier that allows you to configure an -offline-timeout and >-offline-shutdown-timeout option on your fileservers. We have has similar >problems at our site and will be releasing that patch into production shortly.
--patty Jeff Blaine wrote: >>>> Wed Jan 26 12:28:13 2011: upclientetc exited on signal 15 >>>> Wed Jan 26 12:28:13 2011: upclientbin exited on signal 15 >>>> Wed Jan 26 12:28:24 2011: fs:vol exited on signal 15 >>>> Wed Jan 26 12:58:19 2011: bos shutdown: fileserver failed to >>>> shutdown within 1800 seconds >>>> Wed Jan 26 12:58:37 2011: fs:file exited on signal 9 > > Thanks for the replies. > > I can't at all fathom that our issue is one of existing > client connections and callback break completion (timing out). > >> Also, in this specific case, it may not be just that shutting down >> volumes took too long. 1.4.11 has known problems that can cause this >> (e.g. the host list gets a loop in it, and something spins forever >> trying to traverse the whole list). > > That's this, I think?: > > - Fixes to avoid issues cleaning up deleted hosts in > the fileserver (126454) > > Let's assume this issue is what caused our problem. I'm sort > of at a loss as to how to approach OpenAFS versions. On one > hand, expectations of more effort to make it clear in the > release notes what items could cause something like unclean > server shutdowns (kind of a big deal, IMO) are not really > justifiable. It's open source, etc. On the other hand, > it's not acceptable to blindly upgrade to the latest stable > release every time it comes out. I understand that the most > obvious take-away is just, "You got bit. Move on.", but > if anything can improve on our end, I'd like to do that. > > I welcome any suggestions for how others are approaching this. > > Jeff Blaine > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info