fsmpm Not Running on Newly Added Client

[tonyswu]

Hi,

We have a small Xsan with 2 meta data controllers and 3 clients. All machines are running Lion, and using the built-in Xsan that comes with Lion. We are trying to add a new client, but after adding the client Xsan Admin simply says fsmpm not running, and on the client when trying to enable Xsan it displays an error message saying unable to read volume list. We have wiped the client machine and re-tried multiple times with no positive result.

I took a look at the log, here are the logs from client:

8/6/12 6:43:05.644 PM fsmpm: GetCctlsFromNss failed: [errno 54]: Connection reset by peer
8/6/12 6:43:05.644 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: central control init failed!
8/6/12 6:43:05.000 PM kernel: Xsan Client Revision 3.5.0 Build 7443 Branch (457) Built for Darwin 11.0 i386 Created on Sat Jun 18 13:12:27 PDT 2011
8/6/12 6:43:06.577 PM xsand: fsmpm exited unexpectedly (exit code = 1)
8/6/12 6:43:06.592 PM xsand: fsm shutdown after 0 seconds

And here are the logs from the primary controller:


8/6/12 6:39:53.138 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: new_input authentication protocol error(39)...
8/6/12 6:41:16.820 PM xsand: unable to open '/Library/Preferences/com.apple.xsan.controller.plist' for reading: No such file or directory
8/6/12 6:41:16.944 PM Xsan Admin: ERROR: Error mounting volume…: The operation couldn’t be completed. (SANTransactionErrorDomain error 100007.) (100007)
8/6/12 6:41:17.020 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: launching configuration reload thread
8/6/12 6:41:17.020 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: fsmpm configuration reload initiated (flags FFFFFFFF)
8/6/12 6:41:17.020 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: fsmpm configuration reload complete
8/6/12 6:41:17.020 PM fsmpm: Portmapper: File System RAS events undeliverable to Coordinator '192.168.1.250'. Please upgrade Xsan on this host.
8/6/12 6:43:05.649 PM fsmpm: PortMapper: new_input authentication protocol error(39)...

Looks like some sort of authentication error? I am stumped here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[sf809]

Hi tonyswu,

can you check the hidden File under /Library/Preferences/Xsan/.auth_secret.

Regards
Seb.

[tonyswu]

Hi sf809,

Thanks for pointing that out, that is exactly the problem. I manually copied the .auth_secret file onto the client that shows fsmpm not running, and immediately after moving the file in place, the volume appeared. I would still like to figure out though why adding a machine doesn't write that file out automatically.

[minadakena]

Hello, my name is Alejandra. We had the same problem about fsmpm file and your solution solved our problem. Thanks a lot!!!