[6900] in Athena Bugs
RVD server returns bogus error code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 15 18:11:13 1991
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 91 18:11:00 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Spinup returned a bogus error message when I tried to spinup vssys on
praxiteles. This has been tested on both a 7.2P machine and a 6.0C
machine --- not that it matters, since I'm fairly sure it's a problem
with the RVD server, not the client program:
12% spinup 1 praxiteles vssys r
spinup: Unknown spinup mode.
While attempting spinup of
pack vssys at server praxiteles on drive 1 in read-only mode.
Apparently operations had changed the modes on the rvd to 0 in
preparation for an update (or something like that), and the RVD server
was passing back a bogus error message when it couldn't open the rvd
file/device.
As a related issue, attach -d should be modified to print out the error
messages from spinup; it would have made debugging the problem with
w20a-vssys much easier.
- Ted
