[Pvfs2-users] The PVFS2 says"Failure: check root handle failed"

[Phil Carns]

Hello,

Do you have the option of upgrading to a newer distribution?  Redhat 9 
is pretty old at this point and not frequently tested.

thanks,
-Phil

HUST chenqi wrote:
> Hi:
>   After I installed the pvfs-2.7.1 on Redhat9.0.3(Kernel :2.4.20),I
> test it via "pvfs2-ping".However,it appears a error.(pasted in at the
> bottom of this email).I configure and install the pvfs-2.7.1 followed
> the document--pvfs2-quickstart.Almost I do as what the document said
> step by step.It's quite weird. I configure the PVFS with one meta
> server and one I/O server and one client ,and all of them are on one
> host.(You can look for more details in my config file which is in the
> attach).Is there anyone who can help me deal with this problem? Thanks
> very much!
> 
> [root at cluster1 pvfs2]# /usr/local/bin/pvfs2-ping -m /mnt/pvfs2/
> 
> (1) Parsing tab file...
> 
> (2) Initializing system interface...
> 
> (3) Initializing each file system found in tab file: /etc/pvfs2tab...
> 
>    PVFS2 servers: tcp://cluster1:3334
>    Storage name: pvfs2-fs
>    Local mount point: /mnt/pvfs2
>    /mnt/pvfs2: Ok
> 
> (4) Searching for /mnt/pvfs2/ in pvfstab...
> 
>    PVFS2 servers: tcp://cluster1:3334
>    Storage name: pvfs2-fs
>    Local mount point: /mnt/pvfs2
> 
>    meta servers:
>    tcp://cluster1:3334
> 
>    data servers:
>    tcp://cluster1:3334
> 
> (5) Verifying that all servers are responding...
> 
>    meta servers:
>    tcp://cluster1:3334 Ok
> 
>    data servers:
>    tcp://cluster1:3334 Ok
> 
> (6) Verifying that fsid 1887210444 is acceptable to all servers...
> 
>    Ok; all servers understand fs_id 1887210444
> 
> (7) Verifying that root handle is owned by one server...
> 
>    Root handle: 1048576
> Failure: check root handle failed
> PVFS_mgmt_setparam_all: Detailed per-server errors are available
> (error class: 0)
> 
>         Exactly one server must own the root handle.
>         In this setup, no servers own the root handle.
> 
> Per-server errors:
> =============================================================
> 
> The PVFS2 filesystem at /mnt/pvfs2/ appears to have problems.
> 
> 
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