[Gluster-users] 3.1.2 with "No such file" and "Invalid argument" errors

[Raghavendra G]

Hi Steve,

Can you please send us complete client and server log files?

regards,
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Wilson" <stevew at purdue.edu>
> To: "Gluster General Discussion List" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:49:03 PM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] 3.1.2 with "No such file" and "Invalid argument" errors
> I'm running a pair of replicated/distributed GlusterFS 3.1.2 servers,
> each with 8 bricks. Here's the command I used to create the data
> volume:
> 
> gluster volume create post replica 2 transport tcp
> pablo:/gluster/01/brick stanley:/gluster/01/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/02/brick stanley:/gluster/02/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/03/brick stanley:/gluster/03/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/04/brick stanley:/gluster/04/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/05/brick stanley:/gluster/05/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/06/brick stanley:/gluster/06/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/07/brick stanley:/gluster/07/brick \
> pablo:/gluster/08/brick stanley:/gluster/08/brick
> 
> The clients mount the volume using the gluster FUSE client, again
> version 3.1.2. Since GlusterFS doesn't yet support exporting
> sub-directories directly (it does now for NFS, though, I believe), I
> mount the volume as:
> /net/.post-volume
> and then bind mount a couple of lower sub-directories as:
> /net/post (bound to /net/.post-volume/home)
> /net/post-scratch (bound to /net/.post-volume/scratch)
> 
> I am using this volume for user home directories.
> 
> That's the background information... now for the problem. There are
> certain files that are almost guaranteed to go missing after less than
> a
> few hours of a user starting up a login session. We use Ubuntu with
> GDM
> as a login greeter and both KDE and Gnome desktops. Here are a few of
> the files that usually go missing:
> 
> ls: .dmrc: No such file or directory
> ls: .pine-debug2: Invalid argument
> ls: .xsession-errors.old: No such file or directory
> ls: .recently-used.xbel: No such file or directory
> 
> Taking .dmrc, for example, I can stop the volume, then remove all
> occurrences of this file on all the bricks on both servers. Then start
> up the volume again, start the user session again, and after a period
> of
> time (I'm not sure how long), the file comes up missing again. When
> the
> file is missing, this is what it looks like on the bricks themselves:
> 
> server 1:
> 
> root at stanley:/gluster# ls -l ./07/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr 0 2011-01-28 08:24
> ./07/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> root at stanley:/gluster# ls -l ./02/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 stevew sysmgr 25 2011-01-28 08:25
> ./02/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> 
> server 2:
> 
> root at pablo:/gluster# ls -l ./07/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr 0 2011-01-28 08:24
> ./07/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> root at pablo:/gluster# ls -l ./02/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 stevew sysmgr 25 2011-01-28 08:25
> ./02/brick/home/stevew/.dmrc
> 
> 
> Pertinent log messages are:
> 
> server 1:
> 
> net-.post-volume.log:[2011-01-28 08:16:28.899544] W
> [fuse-bridge.c:2432:fuse_xattr_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 6318974:
> GETXATTR() /home/stevew/.dmrc => -1 (Invalid argument)
> 
> 
> server 2:
> 
> net-.post-volume.log:[2011-01-28 08:10:58.74848] W
> [fuse-bridge.c:2432:fuse_xattr_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 2428788:
> GETXATTR() /home/stevew/.dmrc => -1 (No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> Any thoughts or ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> --
> 
> Steven M. Wilson, Systems and Network Manager
> Markey Center for Structural Biology
> Purdue University
> (765) 496-1946
> 
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