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

Steve Wilson stevew at purdue.edu
Mon Jan 31 15:51:36 UTC 2011


Hi,

Sure, I'll attach them to a message directly to you so that I don't hit 
the list with some large attachments.

This morning I noticed another, probably related, problem.  I tried to 
open a VMware image on the Gluster volume and ran into problems.  Going 
through the Gluster mount (again, 3.1.2 client and server) I saw:

    stevew at boer:/net/post/stevew/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP-Pro$ ls -l
    total 88
    drwxr-xr-x 2 stevew sysmgr 32768 2011-01-21 14:24 Logs
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml-prev
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml-prev

On the server looking at the bricks directly, I saw:

    root at pablo:/gluster# ls -l
    04/brick/home/stevew/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP-Pro/
    total 28
    drwxr-xr-x 2 stevew sysmgr 4096 2010-12-15 10:41 Logs
    -rw------- 1 stevew sysmgr 7754 2011-01-21 14:52 WinXP-Pro.xml
    -rw------- 1 stevew sysmgr 7754 2011-01-21 14:52 WinXP-Pro.xml-prev
    root at pablo:/gluster# ls -l
    06/brick/home/stevew/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP-Pro/
    total 16
    drwxr-xr-x 2 stevew sysmgr 4096 2010-12-15 10:41 Logs
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr 7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml

So I copied the WinXP-Pro.xml from brick 04 back to the mounted Gluster 
volume which got me operational again but this is what I now see via the 
Gluster mount:

    stevew at boer:/net/post/stevew/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP-Pro$ ls -al
    total 164
    drwxr-xr-x 3 stevew sysmgr 32768 2011-01-21 14:52 .
    drwxr-xr-x 4 stevew sysmgr 32768 2010-12-03 12:23 ..
    drwxr-xr-x 2 stevew sysmgr 32768 2011-01-21 14:24 Logs
    -rw------- 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 2011-01-21 14:52 WinXP-Pro.xml
    -rw------- 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 2011-01-21 14:52 WinXP-Pro.xml
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml-prev
    ---------T 1 stevew sysmgr  7754 1969-12-31 19:00 WinXP-Pro.xml-prev


Thanks,
Steve

On 01/31/2011 12:27 AM, Raghavendra G wrote:
> 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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Steven M. Wilson, Systems and Network Manager
Markey Center for Structural Biology
Purdue University
(765) 496-1946



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