correction: after purging the backup volumes and attempting to run
backups again, codasrv reported this in SrvErr:

codasrv: rvm_utils.c:143: move_list_entry: Assertion `!victim->is_hdr' failed.

while it didn't die, my venus clients are no longer able to connect,
and codasrv doesn't respond to even kill -9. :/

i think i will revert back to coda-backup-5.3.20 and hope for the best.

On 06/05/03, Steve Simitzis <steve_at_saturn5.com> wrote: 

> On 06/04/03, Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> wrote: 
> 
> > Yeah, that's the one. As you discovered, purging the backup volumes
> > fixes it. And I haven't had a problem since. It is clearly a bug, and I
> > don't really know what caused it. It looks like the volume vnode list
> > in the original replica is smaller than that of the backup volume and
> > the backup volumes assume that it can only be bigger, and it will only
> > grow it's own list to a larger size.
> 
> it seems to fix it, but it also seems to happen again. i had to purge
> the volumes again after coda crashed during my nightly backup run tonight.
> 
> same error, same results.
> 
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