Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread TIARA System Man
dear rob, i only have one db server. the db server also is the ntp server. i synchronized the time on afs file servers to ntp server. it still has the same problem. please help me. thank you. best, sam On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Verify that the

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Banz
On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:30 PM, TIARA System Man wrote: thank you russ.. i just check my CellServDB files on each file server. i just found one has wrong db info in the file. :$ it's generally good to have at least three DB servers (an odd number is important!). The two most common causes

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread TIARA System Man
thank you russ.. i just check my CellServDB files on each file server. i just found one has wrong db info in the file. :$ sorry to bother you guys. thanks again. best, sam On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TIARA System Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread Stephan Wonczak
Hi Robert! On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Robert Banz wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:30 PM, TIARA System Man wrote: thank you russ.. i just check my CellServDB files on each file server. i just found one has wrong db info in the file. :$ it's generally good to have at least three DB servers (an

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Client login via KDM

2008-06-03 Thread Ralf Hornik Mailings
Hi list, Thank you all for the lot of hints. So I only have to suppress the message regarding $HOME/.dmrc for GDM which is being ignored because of the wrong permissions (must be owned by user and not group writable) But one additional small issue could be adressed here (might be related) When

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Client login via KDM

2008-06-03 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Ralf Hornik Mailings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Thank you all for the lot of hints. So I only have to suppress the message regarding $HOME/.dmrc for GDM which is being ignored because of the wrong permissions (must be owned by user and not group

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread Ken Hornstein
This, of course, is wrong in the case of AFS DB-Servers. The master- server (usually the one with the lowest IP) has an additional half- vote. So no split-brain possible here. When did we change this? All of the documentation I ever read said you needed three so you could have a quorum

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:53 AM, Stephan Wonczak wrote: Hi Robert! On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Robert Banz wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:30 PM, TIARA System Man wrote: thank you russ.. i just check my CellServDB files on each file

Re: [OpenAFS] no quorum elected

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Banz
On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:53 AM, Stephan Wonczak wrote: Hi Robert! On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Robert Banz wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:30 PM, TIARA System Man wrote: thank you russ.. i just check my CellServDB files on each file server. i just found one has wrong db info in the file. :$ it's

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume root corruptions - anybody seen those?

2008-06-03 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote: We've started a program of low rate preventive salvages of individual volumes (in -nowrite, per volume while fileserver is running, mainly to spot irregularities) and ran into the following problem . . . Sounds all logical for a