Cannot 'vos backup' certain vols, coredumps in AFS, etc (fwd)

[Jeff Blaine]

Yeah, rock on.  I sent this 5 days ago and just got it from the
list.  Awesome.

--On Friday, February 16, 2001 11:19 AM -0500 Jeff Blaine <jblaine@linus.mitre.org> wrote:

> For hope that someone here might be able to assist me faster than
> IBM can...
>
> Also note that salvager is coredumping as well.  The ramifications of
> everything below is that 4 .backup volumes are in a completely hosed
> state and I cannot get rid of them to create new ones.  This means
> those RWs have not been backed up in several days and I cannot even
> move the RW volumes off of the server in question:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:47:34 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@linus.mitre.org>
> To: afshelp@transarc.ibm.com
> Subject: Cannot 'vos backup' certain vols, coredumps in AFS, etc
>
> We're having some serious problems with several backup volumes on a
> server of ours.  It would seem that our volserver is coredumping
> in a reproduceable fashion.
>
> - The cell is running AFS 3.6.
> - The server is running Solaris 2.7 in 32-bit mode.
> - A 'bos salvage' has ALREADY been done on the volumes below that are
>   shown as not being able to be attached
>
> % vos listvol bunky c
> ...
> **** Could not attach volume 536892576 ****
> **** Could not attach volume 536892561 ****
> **** Could not attach volume 536892371 ****
> **** Could not attach volume 536892308 ****
> % vos examine 536892576
> **** Could not attach volume 536892576 ****
>
>     RWrite: 536892574     Backup: 536892576
>     number of sites -> 1
>        server bunky.mitre.org partition /vicepc RW Site
> % vos remove bunky c 536892576 -verbose -localauth
>
> u.tllin
>     RWrite: 536892574     Backup: 536892576
>     number of sites -> 1
>        server bunky.mitre.org partition /vicepc RW Site
> Transaction on volume 536892576 failed
> Volume needs to be salvaged
> Error in vos remove command.
> Volume needs to be salvaged
> % vos zap bunky c 536892576 -force -verbose
> vos: forcibly removing all traces of volume 536892576, please wait...failed with code 1492325127.
> % bos salvage bunky c 536892574 -localauth
> Starting salvage.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: waiting for salvage to complete.
> bos: salvage completed
> % vos listvol bunky c
> ...
> **** Could not attach volume 536892561 ****
> **** Could not attach volume 536892371 ****
> **** Could not attach volume 536892308 ****
> # NOTE THAT 536892576 is NOT LISTED THIS TIME
>
> % vos backup u.tllin -verbose -localauth
> Creating a new backup clone 536892576 ...Failed to clone the volume 536892574
> Could not end transaction on the volume 536892574
> : No such file or directory
> Error in vos backup command.
> : No such file or directory
> % cd /usr/afs/logs
> % cat VolserLog
> Fri Feb 16 10:43:27 2001 Starting AFS Volserver 2.0 (/usr/afs/bin/volserver)
> % date
> Fri Feb 16 10:45:13 EST 2001
> %
>
>