We had this same problem in the past (coincidence that we both work for the same company?) and were told that it was bug 10186. We're now running version 5.2.3D1 and haven't had the problem in a month or so.
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-----Original Message----- From: Luke Mewburn [SMTP:lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 8:47 AM To: Arden, Bruce [HAL02:8883:EXCH] Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Forcing a halt/reboot without "halt -d"
"Bruce Arden" writes:
I have just had to reboot our filer for the second time in about 3 months. Both times the reboot failed with the error:
A CIFS I/O operation may be hung. Shutdown the system using halt-d and report this incident to NetApp.
But I don't want to do a "halt -d". This causes a core dump which means that the filer may be down for about 10 mins. Is there a way of forcing a halt without using the -d switch (halt on its own just gives the CIFS error message again). I'm currently running 5.3.1D5.
- Bruce
PS The problem that caused me to reboot was that I was getting the error "Cannot find logon server" from PCs trying to connect to the filer. The reboot fixed this. Any ideas?
A suggestion which won't solve your problems, but may help the boot time: move savecore to the end of /etc/rc; it speeds up availability after a boot at the potential expense of corrupting your coredump.
PS: I have seen the ``can't halt because filer is wedged on CIFS users'' problem on older 5.x releases (can't remember exact numbers), but I think we've been OK since 5.3 (now running combination of 5.3D19 and 5.3.2D4, with the latter on our more loaded systems). I know this contradicts your experience (since you're running 5.3.1D5), but you never know; 5.3.2Dx may have fixed something related to this. :-/
Some time ago we got an evaluation license for CIFS and plopped it on one of our filers. I think the license was supposed to expire 60 days later.
It's well past that now and we still get the CIFS chatter on startup. I'm tired of it hanging on like a party guest at 2am who won't take a hint... so how do I remove it? As in, permanently?
BTW, is anyone else having problems with NOW's ideas of what software you're eligible to download? Curiously the only options under my account are for Netcache -- which we've never bought. To download a recent ONTAP release I had to get a temporary login from support...
Some time ago we got an evaluation license for CIFS and plopped it on one of our filers. I think the license was supposed to expire 60 days later.
It's well past that now and we still get the CIFS chatter on startup. I'm tired of it hanging on like a party guest at 2am who won't take a hint... so how do I remove it? As in, permanently?
BTW, is anyone else having problems with NOW's ideas of what software you're eligible to download? Curiously the only options under my account are for Netcache -- which we've never bought. To download a recent ONTAP release I had to get a temporary login from support...
license cifs=DISABLE
Also might want to remove/rename the cifsconfig.cfg file and also make sure there are no "cifs" type commands in the /etc/rc file.
Hi Jim,
At the console:
filer> license <feature>=DISABLE
Where <feature> is CIFS, NFS, HTTP, CLUSTER, SNAPMIRROR etc...
Regards, Matt.
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com [mailto:owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com]On Behalf Of Jim Davis Sent: 12 October 1999 18:07 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Removing CIFS (and more NOW trouble).
Some time ago we got an evaluation license for CIFS and plopped it on one of our filers. I think the license was supposed to expire 60 days later.
It's well past that now and we still get the CIFS chatter on startup. I'm tired of it hanging on like a party guest at 2am who won't take a hint... so how do I remove it? As in, permanently?
BTW, is anyone else having problems with NOW's ideas of what software you're eligible to download? Curiously the only options under my account are for Netcache -- which we've never bought. To download a recent ONTAP release I had to get a temporary login from support...
license cifs=disabled
Jim Davis wrote:
Some time ago we got an evaluation license for CIFS and plopped it on one of our filers. I think the license was supposed to expire 60 days later.
It's well past that now and we still get the CIFS chatter on startup. I'm tired of it hanging on like a party guest at 2am who won't take a hint... so how do I remove it? As in, permanently?
BTW, is anyone else having problems with NOW's ideas of what software you're eligible to download? Curiously the only options under my account are for Netcache -- which we've never bought. To download a recent ONTAP release I had to get a temporary login from support...
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