I've just noticed something strang with my DecSafe setup.
DecSafe is set up on 2 alpha servers 2100, but we have not configured any
services yet. When I use the asemgr utility, it tells me that both servers
are up and everything looks fine.
On May 6th, I deleted a symbolic link in /etc/fdmns/root_domain from one of
the servers, the symbolic link was something like
a -> /dev/a
The /dev/a device do not exist, so I deleted it and told myself that I
would wait to see if s**t happened and delete it from the other server if
nothing bad showed up.
This morning, I noticed in the /var/adm/syslog.dated logs, that the
user.log and daemon.log are growing VERY BIG with incessant errors from the
ASE. This only happens on the server from which I deleted the symlink
Here is a sample of user.log
Jun 4 10:46:59 darwin submon: Error: can't get ASE status from the director!
Jun 4 10:47:09 darwin submon: Error: can't get service status from the
director
Jun 4 10:47:09 darwin submon: Error: can't get ASE status from the director!
Jun 4 10:47:19 darwin submon: Error: can't get service status from the
director
Jun 4 10:47:19 darwin submon: Error: can't get ASE status from the director!
...Ad nauseam
And daemon.log
Jun 4 10:47:19 darwin DECsafe: darwin AseMgr Warning: blocking send of
ASE_INQ_SERVICES failed or channel hung up
Jun 4 10:47:19 darwin last message repeated 128 times
Jun 4 10:47:19 darwin DECsafe: darwin AseMgr Error: unexpected NULL reply
Jun 4 10:47:29 darwin DECsafe: darwin AseMgr Warning: blocking send of
ASE_INQ_SERVICES failed or channel hung up
Jun 4 10:47:29 darwin last message repeated 199 times
Jun 4 10:47:29 darwin DECsafe: darwin AseMgr Error: unexpected NULL reply
...Ad neausam
Could this be related to the fact that I destroyed the link (I tried to
recreate it but that did not fix the problem) ?
Do DECSafe + Advfs root filesystem users have that kind of link ? Is it
related to decsafe ?
Any solution ?
I don't have older backups handy, so I cannot verify that this problem
started occuring just after I deleted that symlink.
Thanks !
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Guy E Dallaire, SysAdmin, DBA
Le Directeur General des Elections du Quebec, QC, Canada
Phone: (418) 646-8618
Fax: (418) 644-9624
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Received on Wed Jun 04 1997 - 17:22:29 NZST