Replying to myself: no solution, but for others facing problems here are
the incantations to extract data from a defunct fileserver:
# Check volume id from RWrite column and partition letter (eg a)
# from server row for the volume you need to restore.
# Example: volid=42 partition=a (from
We're seeing a similar issue. We just recently migrated all of our
dafileservers to 1.8.6 (the three dbs are still on 1.6.24). We're running
CentOS 7.9 (kernel 3.10.0-1160.2.2) and these are all vms on vmware.
The db servers appear to be okay (vos listvldb works, udebug shows recovery
state 1f),
I have a small OpenAFS 1.8.6 setup using the Debian and Ubuntu packages.
Last night everything was working fine, this morning machines were
timing out trying to talk to volume servers. Database replication was
also stuck.
While there is a single backup database and file server, databases and
