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Network home folder clients (10.8.2) freezing

Hi all,

I have a Mac OS X Lion Server (10.7.5, all updates, Mac mini server with TB RAID attached) serving network home folders to Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 clients.

Some of our users are experiencing freezes that manifest shortly after login. It appears that the shared volume is no longer available, based on the following system log entries. Again, this only happens to some users, but those users have it happen consistently...

Any insight?

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast.local KernelEventAgent[47]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers', from '//erink@www.ourURL.foo.foo/BMCusers', not responding

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast.local KernelEventAgent[47]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast.local KernelEventAgent[47]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)

Mar 4 13:46:47 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 8 on so 0xffffff802d71c370

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers prevTrigger 8 currTrigger 9

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 600 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Logging in with uam 10 /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP ReplayPendingReqs: replaying slot 7 with reqID 51198 afpCmd 0x44 on so 0xffffff802d71c370

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: get the reconnect token

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 9 on so 0xffffff802d71c370

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers prevTrigger 9 currTrigger 10

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers

Mac OS X (10.6.7), OS X server

Posted on Mar 4, 2013 12:12 PM

49 replies

Oct 17, 2014 4:15 PM in response to ziondotcom

Just got this note from Apple through the Bug Reporter:

We believe this issue has been addressed in OS X Yosemite. Please test with this release, and update this report with your results.

OS X Yosemite GM (Build 14A389)

Download from the Mac App Store

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-yosemite/id915041082

Please let us know if that resolves the issue for you by updating your bug report.

Hopefully that's good news. Although is anyone actually brave enough to put OS X Yosemite on their server yet? 😁

Nov 18, 2014 3:07 PM in response to ServerBurninator

fI ordered a new Mac Mini to replace our aging XServe which won't accept anything newer than Lion.
It will almost necessarily have to run Yosemite. I'm hoping that my network home folder problems go away with Yosemite. I'll return to give an update after the new server arrives and I'm able to migrate or rebuild everything. And I'll definitely be contacting Apple to let them know if there are problems. I plan to make good use of the 90 days, too.

Sep 29, 2015 3:39 AM in response to Snyderthing

I know this is a rather old topic but still relevant. Instead of disabling spotlight altogether, is it possible to just have it index applications via WGM? I know my staff uses it a lot for that purpose but doesn't necessarily need it to index every single file.

cafarom

Level 1

14 points

Aug 29, 2016 11:58 AM in response to Nicholas Woolridge

Apple has removed mobile accounts in macOS Sierra. I really hope this issue is fixed because we'll have to switch back to network accounts.

Network home folder clients (10.8.2) freezing