Coda File System

Re: 5.3.11 -> 5.3.12 troubles

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:43:23 -0500
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:47:45PM +0100, Petr Tuma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> seeing how there's CODA 5.3.12 around for over a week and I was still 
> running 5.3.11, I thought to upgrade, so I just took the RPM files 
> (running RedHat Linux 7) and switched one of the servers from 5.3.11 to 
> 5.3.12. This caused the other servers up at that time to crash with an 

I haven't had that happen to me here. We currently run a mix of 5.3.11,
5.3.12 and head of the CVS tree. The clients are even more diverse,
ranging from about 5.3.6 to bleeding edge.

> complaining of "cannot mount /coda, killing process". This made me kinda 

Forgot to unmount /coda before starting the new client?

> On access, the client hangs with no error message, last thing from 
> codacon is "ValidateAttrs <dir> [50]" ... any ideas what now ?

Is there anything in the server logs about waiting for a volume lock?
These locks should `time-out' in about 10 minutes, but you never know.

Jan
Received on 2001-01-27 20:43:36