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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Gribble <grib_at_cs.utexas.edu> writes: Bill> The last buglet before upgrading to 5.3.1 was that a user's Bill> home directory (each user's $HOME is a separate Coda volume) Bill> somehow got in a bad state. The clients would hang on any Bill> attempt to even "ls" that directory or the directory Bill> containing its mountpoint. AFAICT the server thought Bill> everything was just fine. I shut everything down, upgraded, Bill> and everybody's $HOME was back. In 5.2.x (and maybe 5.0.x? I didn't keep accurate records, I know I got wedged a few times but not how) I was able to wedge the client in that way by mv'ing directories. Shutting down the server and reinitializing venus fixed the problem. AFAIK there was no file data loss, but there possibly could have been, since the directory information on the server did not get updated to reflect the mv. So I would guess any changes not yet flushed to the server would have been lost (client restart wasn't enough; I don't know coda well enough to know if there was a non-scorched-earth way to recover functionality without reinitializing the cache). 5.3.1 seemed to fix the problem in light testing, but since the "great SCSI host implosion" of Sept 12 my disks have been relocated to a different host and my system has not yet been reconfigured to look for the SCM there, so I don't know much more. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."Received on 1999-10-05 20:51:50