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12. Internals

Note that there are more error and logging messages possible than are listed here. Most of them are self-explanatory. Refer to the program sources for more details on the rest.


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12.1 Log Messages

In the following sections a brief explanation is given of some of the log messages made by Amd. Where the message is in `typewriter' font, it corresponds exactly to the message produced by Amd. Words in italic are replaced by an appropriate string. Variables, ${var}, indicate that the value of the appropriate variable is output.

Log messages are either sent directly to a file, or logged via the syslog(3) mechanism. See section log_file Parameter. In either case, entries in the file are of the form:

 
date-string  hostname amd[pid]  message

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12.1.1 Fatal errors

Amd attempts to deal with unusual events. Whenever it is not possible to deal with such an error, Amd will log an appropriate message and, if it cannot possibly continue, will either exit or abort. These messages are selected by `-x fatal' on the command line. When syslog(3) is being used, they are logged with level `LOG_FATAL'. Even if Amd continues to operate it is likely to remain in a precarious state and should be restarted at the earliest opportunity.

Attempting to inherit not-a-filesystem

The prototype mount point created during a filesystem restart did not contain a reference to the restarted filesystem. This error "should never happen".

Can't bind to domain "NIS-domain"

A specific NIS domain was requested on the command line, but no server for that domain is available on the local net.

Can't determine IP address of this host (hostname)

When Amd starts it determines its own IP address. If this lookup fails then Amd cannot continue. The hostname it looks up is that obtained returned by gethostname(2) system call.

Can't find root file handle for automount point

Amd creates its own file handles for the automount points. When it mounts itself as a server, it must pass these file handles to the local kernel. If the filehandle is not obtainable the mount point is ignored. This error "should never happen".

Must be root to mount filesystems (euid = euid)

To prevent embarrassment, Amd makes sure it has appropriate system privileges. This amounts to having an euid of 0. The check is made after argument processing complete to give non-root users a chance to access the -v option.

No work to do - quitting

No automount points were given on the command line and so there is no work to do.

Out of memory

While attempting to malloc some memory, the memory space available to Amd was exhausted. This is an unrecoverable error.

Out of memory in realloc

While attempting to realloc some memory, the memory space available to Amd was exhausted. This is an unrecoverable error.

cannot create rpc/udp service

Either the NFS or AMQ endpoint could not be created.

gethostname: description

The gethostname(2) system call failed during startup.

host name is not set

The gethostname(2) system call returned a zero length host name. This can happen if Amd is started in single user mode just after booting the system.

ifs_match called!

An internal error occurred while restarting a pre-mounted filesystem. This error "should never happen".

mount_afs: description

An error occurred while Amd was mounting itself.

run_rpc failed

Somehow the main NFS server loop failed. This error "should never happen".

unable to free rpc arguments in amqprog_1

The incoming arguments to the AMQ server could not be free'ed.

unable to free rpc arguments in nfs_program_1

The incoming arguments to the NFS server could not be free'ed.

unable to register (AMQ_PROGRAM, AMQ_VERSION, udp)

The AMQ server could not be registered with the local portmapper or the internal RPC dispatcher.

unable to register (NFS_PROGRAM, NFS_VERSION, 0)

The NFS server could not be registered with the internal RPC dispatcher.

XXX: This section needs to be updated


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12.1.2 Info messages

Amd generates information messages to record state changes. These messages are selected by `-x info' on the command line. When syslog(3) is being used, they are logged with level `LOG_INFO'.

The messages listed below can be generated and are in a format suitable for simple statistical analysis. mount-info is the string that is displayed by Amq in its mount information column and placed in the system mount table.

"${path}" forcibly timed out

An automount point has been timed out by the Amq command.

"${path}" has timed out

No access to the automount point has been made within the timeout period.

Filehandle denied for "${rhost}:${rfs}"

The mount daemon refused to return a file handle for the requested filesystem.

Filehandle error for "${rhost}:${rfs}": description

The mount daemon gave some other error for the requested filesystem.

Finishing with status exit-status

Amd is about to exit with the given exit status.

Re-synchronizing cache for map ${map}

The named map has been modified and the internal cache is being re-synchronized.

file server ${rhost} is down - timeout of "${path}" ignored

An automount point has timed out, but the corresponding file server is known to be down. This message is only produced once for each mount point for which the server is down.

file server ${rhost} type nfs is down

An NFS file server that was previously up is now down.

file server ${rhost} type nfs is up

An NFS file server that was previously down is now up.

file server ${rhost} type nfs starts down

A new NFS file server has been referenced and is known to be down.

file server ${rhost} type nfs starts up

A new NFS file server has been referenced and is known to be up.

mount of "${path}" on ${fs} timed out

Attempts to mount a filesystem for the given automount point have failed to complete within 30 seconds.

mount-info mounted fstype ${type} on ${fs}

A new file system has been mounted.

mount-info restarted fstype ${type} on ${fs}

Amd is using a pre-mounted filesystem to satisfy a mount request.

mount-info unmounted fstype ${type} from ${fs}

A file system has been unmounted.

mount-info unmounted fstype ${type} from ${fs} link ${fs}/${sublink}

A file system of which only a sub-directory was in use has been unmounted.

restarting mount-info on ${fs}

A pre-mounted file system has been noted.

XXX: This section needs to be updated


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