OK, get me a gdb core file of the cmsd there the prep is running. The prep outlives the initiator because it's a background task. So, he m,ust have entered it at some point in the past. It just seems it can't complete. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Brian Bockelman Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:57 PM To: Andrew Hanushevsky Cc: xrootd-dev Subject: Re: Help interpreting a cmsd error message On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Brian, > > If the message is, in fact, always associated with > slava77.2334:[log in to unmask] then this is an error. What it means is > that upon selection to do a prepare request for a prticular file, one or > more servers were marked as pending query for the file. This causes the > prep to delay until the pending status gets resolved. This can also happen > if the request is tagged with refresh (which I don't think it can be but > will check). If the refresh mode is not removed after the first try, you > will get this result. So, does every message refer to the same user@host? > Yes, this is always associated with slava77. To deepen the mystery - I got in contact with Slava, and the associated process on cmswn1926 has been dead for days. Brian