Re: [foxboro] rcopy, rmount on AW51D very slow

  • From: "Joseph M. Riccardi" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:05:47 -0800

Tom,

Your comment about the NVRAM battery has me wondering if that is the problem
I am having with this AW51E I just restored.  Everything goes well until I
powered down and tried to reboot.  That is when I get the error "Can't open
boot device".  And I remember in the past that when the NVRAM battery died,
the symptoms were always that the hard drive failed.  Is this correct about
the symptom and the error message; are they related to a dead NVRAM battery?

This now generates another question...  Is there any other way to get the
NVRAM configuration besides Stop A... printenv?  Can I get them from a
running AW without shutting it down?  Once the AW51 dies from a dead NVRAM
battery, and the box is replaced, it's too late to get the old NVRAM
parameters then...

The UNIX Gods have not been kind to me these last 2 weeks...

Thanks


Joseph M. Riccardi
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-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tom Vandewater
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 5:57 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] rcopy, rmount on AW51D very slow

Glad that solved your problem Dave. And very glad the NVRAM didn't get you.
I wonder if Duc was wearing khakis when you called him?  Like Jake in the
State Farm commercial;<)   Scott gave you some good advice but it is hard to
give up on AW's that were so stable. Alas, your hand is being forced by both
Foxboro and Sun. 
Cheers,
Tom

> On Feb 13, 2014, at 5:02 AM, <dave.caldwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Many thanks to all for the assistance. :>)
> 
> I started killing urfs_xserver (unix remote file system? - just a hunch)
processes since I removed all remote mounts across the entire system and
still had 22 of these processes running, but after killing about 8 or so I
chickened out and rebooted.
> 
> Problem solved.
> 
> I did speak to Duc yesterday. Had I known it was $3.99 a minute I would
have asked him what he was wearing!
> 
> To Scott's comment... I seem to remember Duc hugging an AW51 and mumbling
something like "I'll give you my Sun box when you pry it  from my cold dead
hands..." ;>)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Landry, Scott
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:01 AM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] rcopy, rmount on AW51D very slow
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Don't be the last plant on earth with a SUN box.
> 
> 
>    Just saying,
> 
> 
>    Scott
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tom Vandewater [tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:00 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] rcopy, rmount on AW51D very slow
> 
> Dave,
>    I remember this happening on the Sun boxes before. We never figured out
why but I can almost guarantee that rebooting 04AW01 will solve the problem.
If you let Duc know you are going to reboot it he will probably come in free
of charge because he wants the Sun boxes to run forever. It pains him so to
reset the uptime counter to 0 days;<). He also knows that the NVRAM battery
may be dead and the box may not be able to reboot. That creates an even more
serious issue that will probably result in you paying Duc whatever price he
demands;<)
> 
> Tom VandeWater
> Control Conversions, Inc.
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Duc M Do <duc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> My answering the phone at Duc's Technical Support will cost you 3.99 a 
>> minute.
>> Duc
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:01 AM, <dave.caldwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> All Knowing List,
>>> 
>>> I have an AW51D(04AW01) that is extremely slow to rmount from any 
>>> another AW (or to respond to commands across the remote connection once
rmounted).
>>> The rmount takes about 5 minutes, as does the ls -l, cp, etc...
>>> 
>>> I can rmount other AW file systems to 04AW01 no problem-- just very 
>>> slow when others rmount 04AW01.
>>> 
>>> Ping, telnet, diplays, icc, etc. are all good.
>>> 
>>> I checked disk usage on the AW in question and it looked good.
>>> 
>>> I noticed many processes belonging to /usr/fox/exten/urfs_xserver -m 
>>> /etc/fox/dsamap and one for urfs_om_daemon.
>>> My limited understanding is that these processes govern the remote 
>>> file system.
>>> I did not attempt to kill or restart any processes, but was tempted.
>>> 
>>> Lastly, I'd like to do as my friend Duc suggests and avoid rebooting 
>>> this box (answer your phone Duc).
>>> 
>>> Any ideas???
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
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