[OpenAFS] creating root.afs and root.cell

2005-08-09 Thread Ron Croonenberg
I am trying to reconfigure an OpenAFS server I set up. When I try to create root.afs I get the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]# vos create afs-1 /vicepa root.afs -cell csc.depauw.edu -noauth Volume root.afs already exists Error in vos create command. How can I fix this (I deleted everything

[OpenAFS] vos create failure on attached drive array ?

2005-08-09 Thread Jason Mccabe
I'm having trouble with "vos create" on a fiber attached storage unit. I believe it's an EMC something-or-other, but I'm not sure. I was just given device labels. I set up a test cell a few months ago with native disks.. no problem. bash-2.03# ./vos create /vicepa root.afs -cell -noaut

RE: [OpenAFS] creating root.afs and root.cell

2005-08-09 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
Hi Ron, I expect root.afs already exists on your original server. Use "vos listvl root.afs" and you should see it. You can move it with "vos move." IIRC the /vicepa you wiped had only volumes from the cell you "threw away?" Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [OpenAFS] server install "from scratch"

2005-08-09 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
Removing everything from /vicepa removes only AFS volumes. The AFS user accounts etc live in /usr/afs/db Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Croonenberg Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:10 AM To: opena

RE: [OpenAFS] reconfiguring an OpenAFS server

2005-08-09 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
Hi Ron, How did you restart the service? Did you try a reboot or just the /etc/init.d route? Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Croonenberg Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:31 AM To: openafs-info@op

RE: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
fs checkv will cause the client to discard what it remembers about volumes. Did you try that? Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Sudlow Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:58 AM To: openafs Subject: [Open

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Dexter 'Kim' Kimball wrote: fs checkv will cause the client to discard what it remembers about volumes. Did you try that? No - That worked! Thanks Rich Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Sudlow Sent: Tu

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Todd DeSantis
Hi Rich - I am glad that fs checkvolumes was able to help you get rid of this problem. Hopefully this was not a coincidence and the "vos release" of the bogus root.cell.readonly also did not happen around this time. To help understand why your clients were in this state I would like to ask

[OpenAFS] 1.3.87 for Windows Authentication screen doesn't pop up

2005-08-09 Thread ted creedon
Title: 1.3.87 for Windows Authentication screen doesn't pop up The Authentication screen for v 1.3.87 doesn't pop up. There is no lock icon in the systray Any suggestions? Thanks edc

RE: [OpenAFS] 1.3.87 for Windows Authentication screen doesn't pop up

2005-08-09 Thread ted creedon
Title: 1.3.87 for Windows Authentication screen doesn't pop up I'm running Leash and it has to be enabled manually from there.   Problem solved.   tedc From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ted creedonSent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:06 PMTo: openafs-info@openafs.o

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Todd DeSantis wrote: - a kdump snapshot would have been able to give us some information on the state of the client and could have helped us determine if any volume and/or vcache entry was still pointing at this old fileserver Did you just not build kdump for the cl

[OpenAFS] 1.3.87 on Solaris 10 and weird NFS problem

2005-08-09 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
I just downloaded and compiled the 1.3.87 source on Solaris 10 sparc using the latest Sun Studio compiler. Installed it and AFS appears to work fine (both server and client.) However, when attempting to NFS mount someting on this machine, the machine panics and reboots almost immediately. Altern

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS client and load balancing...

2005-08-09 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Hi, Would it be possible to put an algorithm for load balancing into the AFS client such that the client would select the next server in its preference list if the data stream fed to it by the server was "too slow"? Then, every few minutes, or hours, re-try the primary preferences again and

[OpenAFS] Debian - openafs -noauth problems

2005-08-09 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hi I was wondering if I could ask a few questions regarding AFS setup on Debian. I am trying to follow the instructions http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml?style=printable in a Cell A, Realm B type setup. # bos setcellname omega.domain.edu omega.domain.edu -noauth bos: failed to

[OpenAFS] Re: Problem starting 1.3.8[56] client on Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 09:01 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a test cell on a Gentoo Linux Laptop using kernel > 2.6.12.3, MIT KerberosV 1.4.1, and OpenAFS 1.3.86. Kerberos is working > fine. > > I also followed Tracy Di Marco's paper (with changes where appropriate Correction: I

[OpenAFS] Cellname without dots

2005-08-09 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, @home I've got a small private AFS-cell (Cellname: 'alpha') - all computers are running the most recent Debian Sid (unstable) and OpenAFS-1.3.82. After upgrading glibc from (i think) 2.3.2 to 2.3.5 the resolver's behaviour changed and my AFS-clients were unable to read the cell's database ser

[OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
We've been having problems with our cell for the last couple years with AFS clients after fileservers are taken out of service. Before that things seemed to work ok when doing fileserver moves and rebuilding. All data was moved off the fileserver but the clients still seem to have some need to tal

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fs checkservers These servers unavailable due to network or server problems: reno.helios.nd.edu. That's fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cmdebug reno.helios.nd.edu -long cmdebug: error checking locks: server or network not respon

RE: [OpenAFS] AFS client installation on Motorolla MVME6100 PowerPC

2005-08-09 Thread ted creedon
ANy module such as libafs.ko can be added to the "pseudo-static" vmlinuz kernel used at boot by including libafs in /etc/sysconfig/kernel "INITRD_MODULES=..."   and running mkinitrd which puts it in initrd with all the other modules needed at boot time.   Doing something with it at boot time

[OpenAFS] reconfiguring an OpenAFS server

2005-08-09 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Hello all, I am trying to re-configure and AFS server that I set up so that it serves the same cellname as an older server I have. So I changed the CellServDB and Thiscell and copied the contents from the /usr/afs/etc directory on the old server to the /usr/afs/etc on the new server. Then I t

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread rogbazan
Maybe, you should try removing it from the cell's VLDB with the command vos changeaddr -oldaddr -remove -verbose {backupafs:/afs/.gfi/prod/uniface6/segurid}% vos help changeaddr vos changeaddr: change the IP address of a file server Usage: vos changeaddr -oldaddr [-newaddr ] [-remove] [-cell ]

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Sorry about that: Ok I can now access the file on xeon109 - Switching to another machine with the same problem - (Out of 128 cluster nodes I have about 25 with these problems right now) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/hpcc/etc/passwd ls: /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/hpcc/e

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: Sorry about that: Ok I can now access the file on xeon109 - Switching to another machine with the same problem - (Out of 128 cluster nodes I have about 25 with these problems right now) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom ls: /afs/nd

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: Sorry about that: Ok I can now access the file on xeon109 - Switching to another machine with the same problem - (Out of 128 cluster nodes I have about 25 with these problems right now) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.ed

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom ls: /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/hpcc: Connection timed out i assume if you fs flushmount hpcc it gets better? I wish ;-) ok, so what happens network-wise after you say fs flushv in common, then

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
rogbazan wrote: That has been our solutiontry it! Unfortunately that didn't work. Thanks Rich On 8/9/05, Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fs checkservers These servers unavailable due to network or serv

[OpenAFS] server install "from scratch"

2005-08-09 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Just wondering. If I delete everything on /vicepa does that mean I get rid of all configuration, all users, all volumes ? And the system looks like I just installed OpenAFS and I didn't do any configurations yet ? thanks, Ron ___ OpenAFS-info maili

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom ls: /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/hpcc: Connection timed out i assume if you fs flushmount hpcc it gets better? I wish ;-) ok, so what happens network-wise after you s

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Rich Sudlow wrote: Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom ls: /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/hpcc: Connection timed out Now I'm even getting: xeon028{root}14: cd /afs/.nd.edu /afs/.nd.edu: Connection timed out.

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Hmm... Did you "vos addsite" without "release" to the priddy server? -derek Quoting Rich Sudlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Rich Sudlow wrote: Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Sudlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /afs/nd.edu/common/custom ls: /afs/nd.edu/common/custom/h

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Sudlow
Derek Atkins wrote: Hmm... Did you "vos addsite" without "release" to the priddy server? Actually I didn't even see that - I'll forward to our AFS admins to check. Rich -derek Quoting Rich Sudlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Rich Sudlow wrote: Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, R

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Aaker
I've seen something similar when I have a fileserver process on one server hang (long, sad, self-inflicted wound). Once I'd gotten the server going again, I'd get a connection timeout's and none of the fs commands (checks, checkb, flush, flushv, flushm...) would clear up the problem. I finally

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Ken Aaker wrote: I've seen something similar when I have a fileserver process on one server hang (long, sad, self-inflicted wound). Once I'd gotten the server going well, a hang is potentially different than being gone (shut down) entirely depending on how it hung. _

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems on AFS Unix clients after AFS fileserver moves

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Aaker
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Ken Aaker wrote: I've seen something similar when I have a fileserver process on one server hang (long, sad, self-inflicted wound). Once I'd gotten the server going well, a hang is potentially different than being gone (shut down) entirely depending on how it hung. Y

[OpenAFS] AFS hangs with Krusader...

2005-08-09 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Its me again... I try to copy data from one cell to another, over the net. I' ve got two tokens and try to use krusader to easy copy the files. Krusader first get all the infos from the file and after it got the size of the dir, it copies the file