Sco VisionFS 3.1 - Locking Problem

[tburfield]

Hi,

I'm currently running Sco Unixware with Sco VisionFS. Lately I seem to be having a problem whereby every morning the VisionFS server falls over during my nightly backup (around 3:00AM).

Once I get here the next morning I can restart the server, and it then stays up until the next backup occurs, then the same thing happens.

In the /usr/vision/vfsdata/logs directory, there is a file called errlock.log which reports the following error :-

There was an error reading from the socket.
The locking has failed.
The VisionFSserver will fail
Stop then restart the server.

The VisionFS software was upgraded to ver 3.1 a long time ago, but has only recently started doing this.

One thing I have found is that in the pre-upgrade files there is a file named "lockdport", which just contains the number 44917, however when I checked the same file on the upgraded version the file contains the number 38868.

Any ideas whether the above difference could be causing the problem, or if not, what else could be?

Many thanks for your time,

Tony Burfield

 

[Imagidog]

Sounds like you may have configured the VFS server for something other than Unix file locking. Check into this as it could cause some corruption.
Also, you could add a line to your backup script when its done to restart VFS when the backup is done.