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Title:ase
Moderator:SMURF::GROSSO
Created:Thu Jul 29 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2114
Total number of notes:7347

1864.0. "Unable to Unmount ADVFS domain in order to fail over service" by KERNEL::MORGANI (The Troof is oot there) Thu Feb 06 1997 14:41


Got a strange one here:

Customer reports that on his V1.4 ASE Digital UNIX V4.0a system 
more often than not he is unable to fail his NFS services over 
because it thinks the device is busy!

Not always the same service (he has several). Once he reboots 
then all will be well for a while.

I have got him to force a crash, and looking at it with dbx 
and it's bretheren I find that a couple of the domains seem 
to have VREG type VNODES which have v_usecount =1.

Since vrele() will look at the usecount to decide whether to 
release the vnode I guess this is not releasable.

I also note that the V-flag field is 4096 (decimal) which I think
pans out to VSYSTEM. Implying this is a vnode being used by the
system.

My question: What might be associated with this vnode? What 
might I do to find out why I have several of these associateed 
with a couple of domains?

I am postulating that this is probably a configuration problem, because  
he had the same issue (so he says under V1.3 with V3.2D of UNIX). He 
upgraded just before Christmas.

Any suggestion?

All Firmware seems up to date, (  I am going to get him to use UNICENSUS,
to be absolutely sure!) and the SCSI termination is supposedly correct.

Any pointers of help much appreciated.

Many regards

Idris
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1864.1XIRTLU::schottEric R. Schott USG Product ManagementThu Feb 06 1997 16:2412
It might be good to run lsof on the system just prior to
the relocation...

my first guess is that he does not have the mount points correct, or
has a system using the real mount point rather than the NFS loopback
point.

lsof can be found via

http://www-unix.zk3.dec.com/tuning/tools/tools.html


1864.2Thanks for suggestion but...KERNEL::MORGANIThe Troof is oot thereFri Feb 07 1997 12:0112

In the meantime customer has got hold of lsof himself and has tried it
It does not show anything open in any of the filesystems which he is 
trying to fail over!

What does the system need to keep open? Could this be due to losing touch 
with underlying disks ? Or something?

regards and thanks

idris