This looks like a bug in 5.3.6R1. If you do a user level quota and the user is not in the /etc/passwd file or NIS map, it panics the filer at the quota on. Worse, it keeps panicing at each reboot since part of the reboot sequence is to initialize the quotas.
To fix. Boot floppy, then boot without rc (option 2). You'll need to upgrade ONTAP to 5.3.6R2 which has the fix.
This one seemed to creep in right at 5.3.6R1 and was fixed with anything after that. Previous released do not seem to have the problem.
Hope this helps.
-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: David Schairer [mailto:njal@concentric.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:08 PM To: kubek Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: [toasters] Problems with quotas (or Hurrah ! my first core dump )
Boot via floppy, remove the /etc/quotas file. I'm 99% sure that quota initialization will abort with a warning if it's not there.
--DRS
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:48:37PM +0200, kubek wrote:
Hi, I just populated our F720 but noticed that I forgot some "quota off -- quota on" command sequence in order to enable the last
modification i did
on quotas... ... I'm still waiting for the output of the "quota on"command as
since then the filer is cyclicly trying to dump core (see screenshot at the end of this message) : After each boot the filer notices that the "quota on"command was
interrupted by a reboot, it tries to initialize the quotas and then ... reboot Does someone on this list know how to break this cycle ? Either by modifying the quota file (throught the floppy boot menu) or by forcing a reboot *without* quota initialization ?Thanks, Jean-Marie
----- Screenshot of the error message
NetApp Release 5.3.6R1: Wed Jun 14 18:21:14 PDT 2000 Copyright (c) 1992-2000 Network Appliance, Inc. Starting boot on Tue Sep 12 17:49:29 GMT 2000 Scanning for disk drives: .......Tue Sep 12 17:49:51 GMT
[de0]: Ethernet e0: Link up.
Configuring disk drives: 2.5 2.1 2.6 2.2 2.0 2.3 2.4 Disk 2.0 is reserved for "hot spare"
1 disk is reserved for "hot spare". Restoring parity from NVRAM Loading volume vol0 Tue Sep 12 17:49:55 GMT [rc]: wafl: Reboot interrupted
quota initialization.
Will attempt to reinitialize quotas on volume vol0after WAFL has started.
Replaying WAFL log
PANIC: ../common/wafl/quota.c:1863: Assertion failure. on
release NetApp Release 5.3.6R1 on Tue Sep 12 17:49:57 2000
version: NetApp Release 5.3.6R1: Wed Jun 14 18:21:14 PDT 2000 cc flags: 1 dumping core: ......Old core present on disk --- not dumped.