Make that a vos syncserv not a syncvldb On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Aaron Knister <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gary, > > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately that didn't work: > > $ vos remsite -server 130.85.24.58 -partition /vicepa -id 536988828 > Could not lock the VLDB entry for volume 536988828 > VLDB: no such entry > Error in vos remsite command. > VLDB: no such entry > > Something I did just now was change the address of the non-existent server > on the subnet we no-loner use to a temporary afs file server on a subnet we > are using: > > vos changeaddr -oldaddr 130.85.60.43 -newaddr 130.85.24.58 > > I did read the caveats in the man page before running the above command. > This at least points references to the non-existent fileserver to an > existing server. I was hoping I could do a syncvldb and it would clean up > the reference to the invalid volume but to no avail. > > -Aaron > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Aaron Knister wrote: >> >> There's a server that was decommissioned many moons ago that I'm trying >>> to >>> delete. The problem is there's a volume still associated with it [1], a >>> RO >>> volume at that. When I attempt to remove the volume usin its volume id I >>> get >>> this message: >>> >> >> Try vos remsite: >> >> http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/**systems/AFS/1/vos_remsite.html<http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/1/vos_remsite.html> >> >> I think you will want to give it a volumeID intead of a volume name. >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems >> >> >>> --BEGIN-- >>> Could not delete entry for volume 536988828 >>> You must specify a RW volume name or ID (the entire VLDB entry will be >>> deleted) >>> VLDB: no such entry >>> Deleted 0 VLDB entries >>> --END-- >>> >>> Here's the output of vos listvldb -server for the server in question: >>> >>> --BEGIN-- >>> VLDB entries for server 130.85.60.43 >>> >>> g.ilin22.local >>> ROnly: 536988828 >>> number of sites -> 1 >>> server 130.85.60.43 partition /vicepa RO Site >>> >>> Total entries: 1 >>> --END-- >>> >>> To make matters more interesting, there's another volume of the same name >>> but with a different volume ID. >>> >>> Does anyone have any suggestions? >>> >>> -Aaron >>> >>> -- >>> Aaron Knister >>> Systems Administrator >>> Division of Information Technology >>> University of Maryland, Baltimore County >>> [email protected] >>> >>> > > > -- > Aaron Knister > Systems Administrator > Division of Information Technology > University of Maryland, Baltimore County > [email protected] > -- Aaron Knister Systems Administrator Division of Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County [email protected]
