Downing server

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3 total messages Started by Troy Wollenslegel Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:00

#235

Author: Troy Wollenslegel
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:00

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We have a Netware 4.1 server and I have not been able to down it for
months. Whenever I attempt to down the server, it starts and as it
attempts to dismount some of the volumes it hangs (10-20 minutes). I then 
end up doing a hard reboot. I have tried vrepair and that has not seemed
to fix anything. 

Any ideas are appricated.

Troy
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Troy Wollenslegel
troy@coast.net
www.coast.net/~troy

Re: Downing server

#232

Author: paul reiner
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00

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Troy Wollenslegel wrote:
> 
> We have a Netware 4.1 server and I have not been able to down it for
> months. Whenever I attempt to down the server, it starts and as it
> attempts to dismount some of the volumes it hangs (10-20 minutes). I then
> end up doing a hard reboot. I have tried vrepair and that has not seemed
> to fix anything.
> 
> Any ideas are appricated.
> 
> Troy
> --
> Troy Wollenslegel
> troy@coast.net
> www.coast.net/~troy
First apply all patches from support.novell.com (u didnt indicate
anything here), then when you have a free moment (ya, who does...)  boot
the server, and then down it. Does it occur now?

Several things can prevent a volume from downing (new verb)....

1) A thread may have a lock on the file system
2) Many NLMs need to shut down when the system downs, any one of those
could be the culprit
3) You could have had a memory corruption which is causing the volume
table to get whacked, preventing a down.

4) A semaphore may be asserted

5) All disk must be flushed prior to shutdown. A bad disk driver or HAM
can be the culprit

Last, go into debugger, which process is eating all the time???

If still stuck send me a coredump.

Re: Downing server

#220

Author: Joe Staiber
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:00

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Have you attempted to dismount each volume manually?
Have you tried disabling TTS before dimounting?
Do you have any third party NLM's loaded? Unload them first.
Do you have NetWare/IP running? did you do a UNISTOP frst?

Try these...

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