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		<title>OLIVIER DEVROEDE omdevroe@vub.ac.be: /* Procedure when CVMFS fails in a UI */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Procedure when CVMFS fails in a UI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 10:35, 8 March 2017&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l32&quot;&gt;Line 32:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;=== When the above fails ===&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;If there is no cvmfs daemon running, you might find the following message in /var/log/messages&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;failed to initialize root file catalog (16 - file catalog failure) &lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;In that case, you can restore the system with a reload of the cvmfs config:&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;cvmfs_config reload -c&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;After this step, you might have to restart autofs though.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>OLIVIER DEVROEDE omdevroe@vub.ac.be</name></author>
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		<title>Maintenance script: Created page with &quot;  === Procedure when CVMFS fails in a UI ===  *Identify the 4 CVMFS processes &lt;pre&gt; [root@m3 ~]# ps ax|grep cvmfs 19206 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 &lt;u&gt;cachemgr&lt;...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2015-08-26T12:29:01Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;  === Procedure when CVMFS fails in a UI ===  *Identify the 4 CVMFS processes &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; [root@m3 ~]# ps ax|grep cvmfs 19206 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;cachemgr&amp;lt;...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Procedure when CVMFS fails in a UI ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*Identify the 4 CVMFS processes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[root@m3 ~]# ps ax|grep cvmfs&lt;br /&gt;
19206 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;cachemgr&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; . 8 9 8388608000 4194304000 0 3 -1 :&lt;br /&gt;
19208 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;cachemgr&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; . 8 9 8388608000 4194304000 0 3 -1 :&lt;br /&gt;
19211 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 -o rw,fsname=cvmfs2,allow_other,grab_mountpoint,uid=105,gid=108 cms.cern.ch /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch&lt;br /&gt;
19215 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvmfs2 -o rw,fsname=cvmfs2,allow_other,grab_mountpoint,uid=105,gid=108 cms.cern.ch /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*Kill them&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[root@m3 ~]# kill -9 19206 19208 19211 19215&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*CVMFS should work after few seconds&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[root@m3 ~]# ls /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch&lt;br /&gt;
bin                              cmsset_default.csh                     SITECONF&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap.sh                     cmsset_default.sh                      slc5_amd64_gcc434&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap.sh.old                 common                                 slc5_amd64_gcc461&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap.sh.old2                COMP                                   slc5_amd64_gcc462&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc434.log  crab                                   slc5_amd64_gcc470&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc461.log  crab3                                  slc5_amd64_gcc472&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc462.log  cvmfs                                  slc5_amd64_gcc481&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc470.log  cvmfs-cms.cern.ch-updates              slc5_ia32_gcc434&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc472.log  etc                                    slc6_amd64_gcc472&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_amd64_gcc481.log  rpmdb-slc5_ia32_gcc434-bkp-201102.tgz  slc6_amd64_gcc480&lt;br /&gt;
bootstrap_slc5_ia32_gcc434.log   rpmdb-slc5_ia32_gcc434-bkp-201302.tgz  slc6_amd64_gcc481&lt;br /&gt;
bootstraptmp                     share                                  var&lt;br /&gt;
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