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cutter-john AFS cache corruption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Apr 28 05:43:41 1997
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 05:43:22 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
I experienced some odd behavior on cutter-john last night that
might have been caused by cache corruption.
While trying to check files out using CVS, I got odd errors on
cutter-john, complaints about "unexpected end of file". The CVS
source files are fine, because I can go to another machine, and
successsfully check out the same files (into the same target
directory) as I tried to do under Linux. And, I don't think that
the Linux error is permanently attached to a particular file;
sometimes the file seems to get better, and suddenly checks out
okay.
I basically have no knowledge of what a cache problem would look
like; the reason that I'm sending mail about this is that it reminds
me of what was happening to the Suns a year and a half ago, when I
would get similar failures on them. Files (under CVS) would
usually check out properly, but occasionally fail, with odd errors
about unexpected end of files. I was told that this was caused by
AFS cache problems, so perhaps the current situation is also cache
troubles.
The error messages tend to be clustered, but are not restricted to
such behavior. A typical output from 'cvs co fvwm2' is:
[...]
co: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/Imakefile,v:47: unexpected end of file
co aborted
cvs checkout: could not check out fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/Imakefile
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmForm/README
cvs checkout: Updating fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox
co: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/CHANGES,v:53: unexpected end of file
co aborted
cvs checkout: could not check out fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/CHANGES
co: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/COPYRIGHT,v:82: unexpected end of file
co aborted
cvs checkout: could not check out fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/COPYRIGHT
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/FvwmIconBox.c
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/FvwmIconBox.h
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/FvwmIconBox.man
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/Imakefile
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/TO-DO
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconBox/icons.c
cvs checkout: Updating fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/CHANGES
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/FvwmIconMan.c
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/FvwmIconMan.h
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/FvwmIconMan.man
U fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/Imakefile
co: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/outland/src/repository/fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/README,v:83: unexpected end of file
co aborted
cvs checkout: could not check out fvwm2/modules/FvwmIconMan/README
[...]
Hope you track down the bug,
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
