[Pvfs2-developers] Re: msgpair error

[Rob Ross]

aren't we supposed to be converting the BDB error codes to our own 
somewhere?

Sam Lang wrote:
> 
> On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> 
>> pw at osc.edu wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:59 -0400:
>>>     ret = op_p->coll_p->ds_db->get(op_p->coll_p->ds_db,
>>>                                    NULL, &key, &data, 0);
>>>     if (ret != 0)
>>>     {
>>>         op_p->coll_p->ds_db->err(op_p->coll_p->ds_db, ret, "DB->get");
>>>         ret = -TROVE_EIO;
>>>
>>> ** this is the EIO, no clue why the get failed; nothing in the log.
>>> Why does ->err not print anything?
>>>
>>>         goto return_error;
>>>     }
>>
>> More info:  ret is always -30989 = 0xffff86f3.  The ->err function
>> ends up writing on fd 2, which like 0 and 1 points to /dev/null
>> in pvfs2-server.  Maybe want to wire this up to fd 3, the log file,
>> or better yet call into gossip_err like everything else.  We must
>> be using the default db4 ->err method here.
>>
> 
> 30989 is berkeley db's NOTFOUND error IIRC.  I agree that we should set 
> the db errfile to point to the server log's fd.  Right now its set to 
> stderr in dbpf_db_open, which is fd 2 as you point out.  What is fd 3?
> 
> I'm still puzzling over this error.  I haven't changed any of this code 
> recently so its a bit confusing to me why it would start failing.  Did 
> you do a migrate from an old storage format by chance?  I'll keep looking.
> 
> Also, the dbpf_open_cache_get/put stuff at the top of getattr_op_svc can 
> be removed.  We don't use the open cache in the dspace code anymore.  
> Not sure why the error block was empty though, it would be nice if -Wall 
> would warn about that.
> 
> -sam
> 
>>         -- Pete
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