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Re: Can anyone help with afs problem at CECI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Apr 29 14:42:54 1996
To: Kimberly Ringer <kirky@ceci.mit.edu> (by way of tjm@mit.edu (Tim McGovern))
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, afsdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 29 Apr 96 12:46:15 -0400.
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 14:42:56 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Hi.
> We are receiving the following error messages:
>
> afs: setting clock ahead 2 sec (via 18.158.0.25 in cell athena.mit.edu)
> afs: setting clock ahead 2 sec (via 18.158.0.25 in cell athena.mit.edu)
These are not error messages, it is an informational message telling
you that your clock is skewing and AFS is correcting it for you. If
you wish to turn off time correction in AFS, then modify the file that
starts afsd and add "-nosettime" to the afsd invocation. This is
probably done in /etc/athena/rc.athena or some rc.afs file somewhere.
(I don't know HP/UX enough to tell you where to look, sorry).
> afs: lost contact with volume location server 192.12.69.8 in cell
> cs.arizona.edu
This message means your machine has tried to contact the
cs.arizona.edu AFS cell and has failed to make contact. An alternate
reason for this message is that the arizone AFS servers are not
available at this time. Again, this is an informational message and
can safely be ignored.
> the setting clock error message then repeats and eventually the
> machine hangs.
I highly doubt that the AFS time setting is causing the machine to
hang. More likely, someone did "ls -l /afs" and that process is
hanging. This is a side effect of AFS, and the only way to fix this
is to educate users not to performs stat() requests in /afs. The
process will eventually come back, but you will get alot of errors
timing out to other cells when you do this.
> Would it be possible to get afs removed from this HP machine?
Yes, but then you will not be able to access files from Athena
anymore. To turn off AFS you probably need to just turn it off in
/etc/athena/rc.conf. But again this depends on how you originally
installed the machine.
I hope this helps.
-derek
