Hi Andreas, The quick question is where is the "adminpath" defined? In "/tmp"? If so, this is one reason for the failure (should a cleanup routine remove the sockets olbd creates in /tmp). Andy On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Andreas Petzold wrote: > Hi, > > at GridKa xrootd/olbd failed yesterday with the following error messages in > the xrd log, but nothing in the olbd log. > > Suddenly, the "All managers are disfunctional" message appears and eventually > all clients asking for files are deferred with the "No managers available" > available message. > > 70417 14:27:36 9951 odc_Finder: All managers are disfunctional. > 070417 14:27:36 9951 odc_SelectManFail: > user=skimprod.16534:[log in to unmask] No managers available; wait 10 > 070417 14:27:36 9951 odc_SelectManFail: > user=skimprod.25855:[log in to unmask] No managers available; wait 10 > 070417 14:27:36 9951 odc_SelectManFail: > user=skimprod.10766:[log in to unmask] No managers available; wait 10 > > This went on until I restarted xrootd/olbd (no, didn't take pstack :-( ). Any > ideas? > > At GridKa we are using version 20050920-0008. > > Cheers, > > Andreas >