[RAS] RAS down

[Christian Zimmermann]

Would removing *.lock cancel new registrations pending confirmation and 
open sessions waiting to time out? That would entail loss of data.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
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University of Connecticut
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>> Logged in, seems it works fine, but on log out I got an internal
>> server error. Looking at files I  see
>>
>> aras at nebka:~/acis/userdata$ ls -ralt
>> c/h/christian.zimmermann\@uconn.edu.xml*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras      8 2009-11-01 14:27
>> c/h/christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu.xml.lock
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 309405 2009-11-01 14:28
>> c/h/christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu.xml
>>
>> And as I try to log back in, it says I am still logged in. So I
>> follow the link and then only I manage to log out successfully.
>>
>> I managed to replicate this once more. I suspect something is fishy
>> with lock files. I had reports of such things happening in the past
>> week or two. I solved them all by removing the lock file.
>
> nebka:~# date
> Wed Nov 11 22:33:52 EST 2009
> nebka:~# uptime
> 22:33:54 up 10 days,  8:20,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.36, 0.64
>
>
>  There is no evidence of a recent reboot. The machine must
>  have gone down unexpectedly.
>
>  When the machine goes down and whene it goes up, all files
>  *@*.lock should be  deleted. Rid should be started and
>  stopped, respectively but this is already done  by the
>  /etc/init.d/rid script. Adding an   /etc/init.d/acis script
>  that deals with locks sholud fix this issue. Is there
>  anythnig else that such a script sholud be doing?
>
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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