Conference smurf::ase

1940.0. "No such device on service failover" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (John McDonald) Tue Mar 11 1997 15:43

I have a customer with an interesting problem. They have ASE 1.4 on DU 4.0b.
They created a simple NFS service that uses an AdvFs domain#fileset, which
in turn is built on an LSM mirrored volume. The service starts up on the first
system with no problem, but when they try to fail it over to the other
system, they get the message "Agent Error: /var/ase/sbin/ase_filesystem:
cig_dmn#cig_fs on /usr/var/ase/mnt/cig_service/cig_export: No such device.
The interesting part is that the lsm_dg_action, advfs_dmn_action and
ase_mount_action scripts that run before it all terminate normally
(I had the turn on Informational level logging and fax me the daemon.log).
I searched all of the scripts in /var/ase/sbin, but I can't figure out
where the error is coming from. It would seem to me that one of the
previous scripts should have failed if there was a problem.

Any ideas?

John McDonald
Atlanta CSC

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p.s. This problem appeard when the upgraded to DU4.0/ASE1.4. They claim
the service worked fine in 1.3.

John McDonald
Atlanta CSC

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We found the problem. It turns out that the customer had recently upgraded
from 3.2 to 4.0. In the process, his 'option MSFS' on the second system
got deleted. ASE created the links for the AdvFs domain in /etc/fdmns
when it moved the service to the second node, but it never checked to see
if it could access them. When it finally tried to mount the filesystem,\
it died because AdvFs wasn't configured.

John McDonald

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