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another occurrance of missing AFS homedir on 9.4

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin W Chen)
Mon Jun 27 18:30:14 2005

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin W Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
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On scyther.mit.edu, a Linux-Athena 9.4 machine, near the network problem 
not long ago:

[~ scyther]% ls -l
ls: .: Connection timed out

[~ scyther]% fs flushv .
Error flushing volume .: No such file or directory

[~ scyther]% fs flushv /mit/kchen
Error flushing volume /mit/kchen: Invalid argument

[~ scyther]% ls -l
ls: .: Connection timed out

[~ scyther]% fs checks
All servers are running.

[~ scyther]% vos exa user.kchen
user.kchen                        537440414 RW    2660403 K  On-line
     ELECTRA.MIT.EDU /vicepa
     RWrite  537440414 ROnly  537659670 Backup  537440416
     MaxQuota    3000000 K
     Creation    Sat May 11 14:31:54 2002
     Copy        Sun Jun 12 23:46:18 2005
     Backup      Mon Jun 27 03:39:10 2005
     Last Update Mon Jun 27 18:05:25 2005
     11324 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)

     RWrite: 537440414     Backup: 537440416
     number of sites -> 1
        server ELECTRA.MIT.EDU partition /vicepa RW Site

[~ scyther]% ls
[normal output shows up here]

[~ scyther] cd bin

[~/bin scyther]% ls
[normal output shows up here]

[~/bin scyther]% cd
cd: Can't change to home directory.

[~/bin scyther]% fs checks
All servers are running.

[~/bin scyther]% fs flushv ~
Error flushing volume /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen: No such file or 
directory

[~/bin scyther]% ls -l
[normal output here]

[~ scyther]% ls -l
total 2.0K
drwx------  3 kchen mit 2.0K Jun 20 11:44 bin/

[~ scyther]% ls -l
total 2.0K
drwx------  3 kchen mit 2.0K Jun 20 11:44 bin/

[~ scyther]% fs flushv .

[~ scyther]% ls -l
total 2.0K
drwx------  3 kchen mit 2.0K Jun 20 11:44 bin/

[~ scyther]% pwd
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen/arch/common

[~ scyther]% cd
cd: Can't change to home directory.

[~ scyther]% cd /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen: No such file or directory.

[~ scyther]% fs checks
All servers are running.

[~ scyther]% cd /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/kchen: No such file or directory.

[~ scyther]% cd /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/c/

[c scyther]% cd kchen
kchen: No such file or directory.

[c scyther]% ls -l
[normal output]
...
?---------   ? ?     ?       ?            ? kchen
...
[more normal output]

[c scyther]% fs flushv kchen
Error flushing volume kchen: No such file or directory

After all this, I've still been able to get to my home directory, even 
though the network problem is long past.

--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/

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