This information has not been notified to Digital yet. We think that
people upgrading from ASE TCR 1.4a to TCR 1.5 kit #2 should carefully
check their current configuration (AdvFS domain name vs NFS server
name in /etc/fstab). Under certain circumstances, TCR 1.5 will not be
able to start the NFS services, leaving the services down.
We consider this as a bug. It is our hope that this information will
save your time. We are proposing a fix, which works for us. Obviously
this is not an official fix from Digital.
When ASE starts an NFS service, it runs the ase_mount_action
script. This script calls a ksh function InFstab (defined in the file
/var/ase/lib/FsRoutines), with a filesystem as parameter. With AdvFS,
filesystem consists of a string of the type domain#fileset. The
purpose of the InFstab function is to check if the filesystem is not
actually used, by checking it is not present if /etc/fstab.
Unfortunately, the check is done by doing grep on the domain part of
the filesystem, WITHOUT keeping the # character.
If a line of /etc/fstab contains the string "domain", a successfull
match is returned. ase_mount_action reports it with the error message
(daemon.log) "domain#fileset conflicts with an entry in
/etc/fstab". ASE is down.
This may happen in many situations. In our case, the domain part of
the filesystem matched the name of an NFS host ! Your mileage may vary.
We modified the InFstab function in /var/ase/lib/FsRoutines to keep
the # character in the grep command, by changing line number 284 from
device=${1%\#*}
to
device=${1%\#*}\#
Since we are only using AdvFS in ASE, we do not check if other parts
of InFstab should be corrected too (parts dealing with LSM volumes or
plain block devices).
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